Innocent EreBndira And Other Stories ISBN=9780141032481

　　Whilst her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that she collapses into bed with the candle still glowing on a nearby table - and is fast asleep when it topples over...Eight hundred and seventy-two thousand, three hundred and fifteen pesos, her grandmother calculates, is the amount that Erendira must repay her for the loss of the house. As she is dragged by her grandmother from town to town and hawked to soldiers, smugglers and traders, Erendira feels herself dying. Can the love of a virgin save the young whore from her hell?

　　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.

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her
Heartless Grandmother
The Sea of Lost Time
Death Constant Beyond Love
The Third Resignation
The Other Side of Death
Eva Is Inside Her Cat
Dialogue with the Mirror
Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers
Eyes of a Blue Dog
The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock
Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses
The Night of the Curlews

　　These stories abound with love affairs, ruined beauty, and magical women. It is essence of Marquez Guardian Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do Salman Rushdie 'It becomes more and more fun to read. It shows what 'fabulous' really means' Time Out