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Until August

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Living to Tell the Tale

I'm Not Here to Give a Speech

The Autumn of the Patriarch

The General in His Labyrinth

Strange Pilgrims

News of a Kidnapping

In Evil Hour

Leaf Storm

Of Love and Other Demons

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love in the Time of Cholera

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

No One Writes to the Colonel

and Other Writings

The Scandal of the Century

Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Collected Stories

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Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do

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Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and communities in his mesmerising tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President and Pope at the funeral of Macondo's revered matriarch; a very old angel with enormous wings. Teeming with the magical oddities for which his novels are loved, Márquez's stories are a delight.

Collected Stories brings together many of Gabriel García Márquez's spellbinding short stories, each brimming with a blend of the surreal, the magical, and the everyday that Nobel-Prize-winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Márquez is known for. 
 
Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and communities in his mesmerizing tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President and Pope at the funeral of Macondo's revered matriarch; a every old angel with enormous wings, stranded in a young couple's back garden; a town plagued by dying birds that fall from the sky and an awestruck village captivated by a beautiful drowned sailor. Teeming with the magical oddities for which his novels are loved, Márquez's stories are a delight. 
 
'These stories abound with love affairs, ruined beauty, and magical women. It is essence of Márquez' Guardian 
 
'Of all the living authors known to me, only one is undoubtedly touched by genius: Gabriel García Márquez' Sunday Telegraph 
 
'It becomes more and more fun to read. It shows what "fabulous" really means' Time Out

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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