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by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author), Edith Grossman (Translator) "HE SAT ON a wooden bench under the yellow leaves in the deserted park, contemplating the dusty swans with both his hands resting on the..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA; Reprint edition (14 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1400034698
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400034697
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dying means never being with friends anymore, 19 Aug 2009
By Luc REYNAERT (Beernem, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strange Pilgrims (Paperback)
This bundle of short stories contains some of the greatest highlights of G.G. Màrquez's prose, like `I Only Came to Use the Phone', `Miss Forbes's Summer of Happiness' or `The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow'.
It contains also another version of Y. Kawabata's `The House of the Sleeping Beauties' (`Sleeping Beauty and the Airplaine'), which continues to fascinate the author. He even wrote a short novel about this theme (`Memories of My Melancholic Whores').

There are also outspoken political stories, ingredients or comments in it: (South-America) `A continent conceived by the scum of the earth without a moment of love: the children of abductions, rape, violations, infamous dealings, deceptions, the union of enemies with enemies.' (`Bon Voyage, Mr. President') or, like the Spanish Franco scene in `Maria dos Prazeres.'
Of course, there are also the sex histrionics and the `miracles' (`The Saint').

These stories shine through their `surrealist shocks' (`The Ghosts in August'), the evocation of the unpredictability of human fate, the meditations on the fugacity of human life and the possibility of a sudden death, or the melancholic memories of crucial personal confrontations and happenings.

They constitute a perfect introduction to the author's major and larger novels, like `One Hundred Years of Solitude' or `Living to Tell the Tale'.
A must read for all lovers of world literature.
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1.0 out of 5 stars WAY overhyped!, 28 July 2006
This review is from: Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories (Hardcover)
I am currently reading Strange Pilgrims and am totally dissapointed, as I was when I tried to read One Hundred Years of Solitude (in Spanish) and Love in the Time of Cholera. I kept reading rave reviews of Garcia Marquez and thought I must be missing something, but the gaping plot holes, abrupt endings and endless repetition in these 12 stories have nearly finished me off! It is declared in the Prologue that the short stories were almost all written at once, as if this is supposed to surprise the reader - but all the characters are the same !! I only moved towards Garcia Marquez' books because I heard of a comparision with Louis De Berniere's stories set in South America, but for me they were a hundred times better.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Magical, prosaic, ultimately beautiful, 22 Jun 2009
By Michael Marett-crosby (Jersey, Channel Islands) - See all my reviews
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I picked this up almost reluctantly after his Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, which disappointed me. But this is Garcia Marquez back where he should be, a fine book best read slowly and savoured. It's built from 12 short stories, characters in search of authors, and it's about strangeness, about what wrong places do to people who should have stayed at home. Rome makes a lost father into a saint of sorts. A boy goes sailing on light because Madrid has no water. Like magic realism at its best, it bends reality to make room for the more real, then in the next paragraph is prosaic and beautiful in its observations of small things. As with all that he writes, it's ultimately very beautiful. I would read it again, and in the meantime it can sit proudly with great books of his like The Autumn of the Patriarch or The General in his Labyrinth.
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