Strange pilgrims : twelve stories

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  • Author: García Márquez, Gabriel
    Contributor:

    Grossman, Edith

    ,

    Corzo, Frankie

    ,

    Salazar, Christopher

    Summary:

    In these twelve stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.

    Contents:
    • Prologue: Why Twelve, why stories, why pilgrims
    • Bon voyage, Mr President
    • Saint
    • Sleeping Beauty and the airplane
    • I sell my dreams
    • I only came to use the phone
    • Ghosts of August
    • Maria dos Prazeres
    • Seventeen poisoned Englishmen
    • Tramontana
    • Miss Forbes's summer of happiness
    • Light is like water
    • Trail of your blood in the snow.
    Genre: Magic realist fiction, Short stories
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon] , Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781665038874

    ,

    9781665038881

    ,

    1665038888

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DC Contributor

Grossman, Edith

Corzo, Frankie

Salazar, Christopher

Abstract

In these twelve stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.

Genre
Magic realist fiction
Short stories
Publisher (Source)

[Ashland, Oregon]

Blackstone Publishing

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