Synopses & Reviews
Part One. Eyes of a Blue Dog Chapter 1. "The Third Resignation
Chapter 2. "The Other Side of Death
Chapter 3. "Eva Is Inside Her Cat
Chapter 4. "Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers
Chapter 5. "Dialogue with the Mirror
Chapter 6. "Eyes of a Blue Dog
Chapter 7. "The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock
Chapter 8. "Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait
Chapter 9. "Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses
Chapter 10. "The Night of the Curlews
Chapter 11. "Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo
Part Two. Big Mama's Funeral Chapter 12. "Tuesday Siesta
Chapter 13. "One of These Days
Chapter 14. "There Are No Thieves in This Town
Chapter 15. "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon
Chapter 16. "Montiel's Widow
Chapter 17. "One Day After Saturday
Chapter 18. "Artificial Roses
Chapter 19. "Big Mama's Funeral
Part Three. The Incredible and Sad Tale Of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother Chapter 20. "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Chapter 21. "The Sea of Lost Time
Chapter 22. "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Chapter 23. "Death Constant Beyond Love
Chapter 24. "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship
Chapter 25. "Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles
Chapter 26. "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother
Review
“García Márquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform.” Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review
Review
“It is the genius of García Márquez that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death.” John Leonard, New York Times
Review
“The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident and eloquent in their manner...They are the word cannot be avoided--magical.” John Updike, The New Yorker
Synopsis
Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.
Synopsis
"Garc a M rquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform." -- Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review
Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog, Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Er ndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.
Synopsis
Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredibleand Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother.Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.
About the Author
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez was born in 1928 in the town of Aracatca, Colombia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.