Doce cuentos peregrinos / Twelve Pilgrim Tales

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Doce cuentos peregrinos / Twelve Pilgrim Tales
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Country
Published
14 November 2006
Pages
192
ISBN
9781400034949

Doce cuentos peregrinos / Twelve Pilgrim Tales

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena su perro a llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para si 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 pais caribeno, solo para descubrir que sus ambiciones politicas siguen intactas.

En estos doce relatos magistrales acerca de las vidas de latinoamericanos en Europa, Garcia Marquez logra transmitir la amalgama de melancolia, tenacidad, pena y ambicion 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, Garcia Marquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity,
sorrow, and aspiration that is the emigre experience.

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