An exceptional collection that gathers, for the first time, in a single volume, all of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez''s short stories.
[Translation of title into English: Complete Short Stories]
Packaged into a single volume are forty-one essential stories that showcase the career of the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) and that constitute an impressive legacy for universal literature.
The reader will find the early stories of García Márquez collected within Eyes of a Blue Dog, which includes "Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo", the famous text that laid the foundations of Macondo, the vast universe --both imaginary as it was real-- that would end up becoming the most powerful literary space of our time. The birth of Macondo served as the inauguration of the magical realism era, personified by characters immersed deep in the dense and tropical landscape of the Caribbean. From this stage onwards, what followed were a series of stories that showed García Márquez in full command of his narrative talent: "Big Mama''s Funerals" ("Los funerales de la Mamá Grande"), which recounts the lavish funeral of the authentic sovereign of Macondo, and "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" ("La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y su abuela desalmada"). The most recent collection of his short stories, titled Twelve Pilgrim Tales (Doce cuentos peregrinos) take the reader to old Europe to tell us about the fate of Latin American immigrants, of their melancholy and their tenacity.
