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Filled with greedy joys, with small pleasures, polished like
apples against a sleeve Observer Often touching, often funny,
always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself
New Statesman Celebratory and full of strange relish at life's
oddness. The stories draw their strength from Marquez's generous
feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent William
Boyd
内容简介
In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to
weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman
parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling
position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and
his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a
Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is
very much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the lives
of Latin Americans in Europe, Garcia Marquez conveys the peculiar
amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the
emigre experience.
作者简介
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.