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Doce Cuentos Peregrinos / Twelve Pilgrim Tales
Contributor(s): García Márquez, Gabriel (Author)
ISBN: 1400034949     ISBN-13: 9781400034949
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Language: Spanish
Published: November 2006
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Annotation: This volume contains 12 short stories written by Mrquez during an 18-year period. The stories are full of imagination and lyrical surprises.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2006041358
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.26" W x 7.81" (0.40 lbs) 192 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena su perro a llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para s misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica. En Ginebra, el conductor de una ambulancia y su esposa acogen al abandonado y aparentemente moribundo ex presidente de un pa s caribe o, s lo para descubrir que sus ambiciones pol ticas siguen intactas.

En estos doce relatos magistrales acerca de las vidas de latinoamericanos en Europa, Garc a M rquez logra transmitir la amalgama de melancol a, tenacidad, pena y ambici n que forma la experiencia del emigrante.


ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

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.