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Strange Pilgrims - Gabriel García Márquez
Strange Pilgrims
Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world...These pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the... show more
Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world...These pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience with all Marquez's humour, warmth and colour, what it is to be a Latin American adrift in Europe or, indeed, any outsider living far from home.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780140230963 (0140230963)
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: Spanish
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Elena
Elena rated it
Garcia Marquez is this kind of writer:And I prefer this kind of writing:Doesn't mean he's bad. Icky, sure. Not bad.
Simcha-Sophie
Simcha-Sophie rated it
3.0 Strange Pilgrims
I was torn between giving this two and three stars. The writing is, not surprisingly, seamless and makes the book easy to read. Not as much magical realism as I'd expected. Better than "100 Years of Solitude," which I did not care for.I think the last story is the most powerful; there is more charac...
riley
riley rated it
4.0 Strange Pilgrims
“Bon Voyage, Mr. President” [8]; “The Saint” [7]; “Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane” [8]; “I Sell My Dreams” [7]; “”I Only Came to Use the Phone”” [10]; “The Ghosts of August” [8]; “Maria dos Prazeres” [8]; “Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen” [9]; “Tramontana” [8]; “Miss Forbes's Summer of Happiness” [8...
guiltlessreader
guiltlessreader rated it
More reviews here: http://www.guiltlessreading.blogspot.comThis is a fantastic book! If you aren't quite ready to plunge into Garcia Marquez's full length books, this one will give you a feel for how he writes. Despite some of these stories being only a few pages long, the stories will stay with you...
Lost in the Stacks
Lost in the Stacks rated it
5.0
My favorite collection of short stories.
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