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Strange Pilgrims

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ ISBN: 9780140231069.

250.00 220.00

This book features twelve stories written between 1976 and 1982. The first story, ‘Bon Voyage, Mr President’, states the general theme of those that follow: Latin American citizens adrift (or trapped) in Europe.

Some of the stories are more fantastical than others. Two of the best are also two of the most kafkaesque: ‘I Only Came to Use the Phone’ and ‘The Trail of your Blood in the Snow’, both of which feature unwilling incarceration in hospitals. The latter story is heart wrenching as well as disturbing and written in exquisite prose.

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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 masterly 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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