Innocent Erendira and Other Stories - Softcover

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140157522 ISBN 13: 9780140157529

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

Erendira accidentally burns down her grandmother's house and is forced to pay her back with the money she earns from prostitution. However, it seems Erendira has a more appropriate way of repaying her. The book's main themes are death, power, love and duty.

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Review:

Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do (Salman Rushdie)

These stories abound with love affairs, ruined beauty, and magical women. It is essence of Marquez (Guardian)

'It becomes more and more fun to read. It shows what 'fabulous' really means' Time Out

About the Author:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140157522
• ISBN 13: 9780140157529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192