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by Gabriel Garc a. M. Rquez
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gabriel Garc a. M. Rquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)Series:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2006-11-14Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400034697ISBN-10:1400034698UPC:9781400034697Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Magical RealismSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCEMSFJV3H
In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact.

In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, Garc a M rquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the migr experience.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400034697ISBN-10:1400034698UPC:9781400034697Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, Magical RealismSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCEMSFJV3H

Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Cholera, The Autumn Of The Patriarch, The General In His Labyrinth, and News Of A Kidnapping. He died in 2014.

This book is translated by Edith Grossman, widely recognized as the preeminent Spanish to English translator of our time.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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Gabriel Garc a. M. Rquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)

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Gabriel Garc a. M. Rquez

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