Spanning more than two decades, this enchanting collection of twenty-nine short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez combines humor, history, and mysticism to reveal the development of the master storyteller's prose.
With stories about the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, lost opportunities and present joys, memories, illusions, death, and other themes that resound throughout García Márquez's fiction, this comprehensive collection celebrates an author who "forces upon us at every page the wonder and extravagance of life" (New York Review of Books).
Stories include "Tubal-Cain Forges a Star," "Eyes of a Blue Dog," "Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo," "Big Mama's Funeral," "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother," and many more.
