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Strange Pilgrims (Penguin International Writers) [Paperback]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author)

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Publication Date: September 29, 1994

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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Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available as a Penguin Paperback from August 2007. He is the author of several novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Product Details

Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (September 29, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140230963
ISBN-13: 978-0140230963
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 7 ounces

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1.0 out of 5 stars dont get me wrong ... Gabo is my #1 author, September 12, 2009

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i love Gabo ... he is my favorite author ... i loved 100 hundred years of solitude, love in the time of cholera, of love & other demons , & all the other books ... but this one is the worst ever ... i tried to read it several times .. over & over & over ... but it was nothing but a bad bad book ...

go for any of his books except for this one ...

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