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Original Title:	Doce cuentos peregrinos
ISBN:	1400034698 (ISBN13: 9781400034697)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Europe

Strange Pilgrims Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

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Title	:	Strange Pilgrims
Author	:	Gabriel García Márquez
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	November 14th 2006 by Vintage (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Magical Realism. Literature. European Literature. Spanish Literature

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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 masterful short 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.

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One of those feelings you can't shake, when you feel so alone in a foreign city. That feeling of isolation, completely lost. Whether you have just stepped onto that foreign land, or you have lived there for 20 years. Every time I read a Marquez book I am reminded, that whether his stories fit in your taste or not, he wrote in his unique voice back in the 70s and early 80s (in this book's case), and these popular writers of today with their own unique voices, such as Haruki Murakami or Juno Diaz,

A continent conceived by the scum of the earth without a moment of love: the children of abductions, rapes, violations, infamous dealings, deceptions, the union of enemies with enemies. Father of Magical Realism, a true god of Literature, one of the immortals. Gabriel Garcia Márquez doesnt need introductions. He is the writer who drew my attention to Latin American Literature. Through his work, I fell in love with Colombia, its culture and traditions, with the rich literary world of Central and

Marquez remains a great writer. While not every story in this bundle is equally enjoyable, they all show great mastery and the ability to draw interesting characters in a few lines, a feat in which some writers don't succeed in a whole book.The Dutch translation that I read, had a horrible title. The poetical Spanish title (Doce Cuentos Peregrinos, Twelve Pilgrim Stories) fitted exactly, because there are 12 stories, the rough drafts have traveled with Marquez to the different places where he

They range from very good to pretty bad - particularly the last story which was a shame. and maybe coloured my memories of some of the earlier ones. There's more than a hint of whimsy. Made me think I should not re-read A Hundred Years of Solitude in case the magical realism has turned into whimsy as I have got older. The best stories have a lovely clarity about the people in them but does not pin them down so they live on in the mind rather then being fixed as a picture.

I can see why these stories took Márquez so long to finish, they are as perfect and satisfying as anything else of his I've read. Each story is filled with that gentle mysteriousness that I've come to associate with Márquez, and each is as impressive as the main novels for which Márquez is most famous. People really should go beyond "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and such and check this volume out as well.

Damn hay!

This was one of the books that had been on my to-read list the longest, and I chose it for my most recent speed-dating project. I was originally going to count it for my Around the World challenge, and still kind of am, but it doesn't take place in just one country. Quite the opposite, each story takes place in a different European country, often with displaced Latin Americans as characters.It just isn't surprising that these stories come from the same author as Memories of My Melancholy Whores,