Doce cuentos peregrinos
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En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena su perro a llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para sí misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica. En Ginebra, el conductor de una ambulancia y su esposa acogen al abandonado y aparentemente moribundo ex presidente de un país caribeño, sólo para descubrir que sus ambiciones políticas siguen intactas.
En estos doce relatos magistrales acerca de las vidas de latinoamericanos en Europa, García Márquez logra transmitir la amalgama de melancolía, tenacidad, pena y ambición que forma la experiencia del emigrante.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #93624 in Books
- Published on: 2006-11-14
- Released on: 2006-11-14
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
Editorial Reviews
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“Lleno de deleite ante las excentricidades de la vida... la absoluta habilidad de García Márquez para atraparnos y seducirnos hace de Doce cuentos peregrinos algo fascinante e inolvidable”—The New York Times Book Review
“Sicológicamente agudos... absolutamente encantadores”. —The Washington Post
"Ni más ni menos que brillantes –cada uno de estos cuentos es una joya”. —Seattle Times
“García Márquez en su mejor forma. Con una frase surrealista o una imagen mágica, nos permite ver la realidad, seria y cómica a la vez, bajo una insólita luz”. —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Language Notes
Text: Spanish
From the Publisher
Twelve short stories written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez during eighteen years full of imagination and lyrical surprises!
Customer Reviews
Un cierto vacío.
García Márquez escribe muy bien, es un gran profesional... Y quizá sea por eso por lo que algunas de sus obras no acaban de convencerme. Me cuesta trabajo encontrar el sentimiento detrás de su virtuosismo. Prefiero escritores quizá no tan hábiles pero que narran más a flor de piel, como Arlt. Estos cuentos están, sin duda, bien hechos, pero me han dejado indiferente.
Little Gems
This collection of short stories is a perfect introduction to the work of the master writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Each is finely crafted and has an intensity that only a author of his genius would be able to contain within the confines of this genre.Each story is a gem of literature.
Magical, Unforgettable Stories
A man carries the perfectly preserved body of his daughter around in a carrying case. A woman whose car breaks down by the side of the road wants to use the telephone, but finds herself committed to a mental institution. A young woman, newly married, pricks her finger on a rose, and begins bleeding to death. A young couple spend the night in a hotel where a horrific murder took place long before. Twelve remarkable stories that begin in a low key, almost believable manner and quickly go off into another dimension. A magical dimension. The endings are unexpected, haunting, and often tragic.
I won't tell you how any of these stories turn out, you'll have to read them. There are twelve, of varying length, and every one of them is brilliant. You will not only enjoy these stories but they will stay with you. Despite my limited command of Spanish, I found the stories quite readable, lucid, written in a simple, spare style, with great economy of language. What a gift!
Marquez is a master story-teller. I recommend this book very highly. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.



