Innocent Erendira and Other Stories - Couverture souple

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141032480 ISBN 13 : 9780141032481

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories is a collection of short stories from the Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez. 'Eréndira was bathing her grandmother when the wind of misfortune began to blow'While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Eréndira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that's he collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topples over. . .Eight hundred and seventy-two thousand, three hundred and fifteen pesos, her grandmother calculates, is the amount that Eréndira must repay for the loss of the house. As she is dragged by her grandmother from town to town and hawked to soldiers, smugglers and traders, Eréndira feels herself dying. Can the love of a virgin save the young whore from her hell?'It becomes more and more fun to read. It shows what "fabulous" really means' Time Out'Márquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do' Salman Rushdie'One of this century's most evocative writers' Anne TylerAs one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel García Márquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch, Bon Voyage Mr.President, Collected Stories, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in his Labyrinth, In the Evil Hour, Leaf Storm, Living to Tell the Tale, Love in the Time of Cholera, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, News of a Kidnapping, No-one Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Strange Pilgrims.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available as a Penguin Paperback from August 2007. He is the author of several novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141032480
• ISBN 13: 9780141032481
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192