Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera , and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale . There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since his death in April 2014. Klappentext This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez's earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother. Zusammenfassung This extraordinary collection of fiction, representing some of Gabriel García Márquez's earlier work from the 1950s, as well as stories written in the 1960s and '70s, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira , in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Assisted by: Gregory Rabassa (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2005
• EAN: 9780060751586
• ISBN: 978-0-06-075158-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Perennial Classics; Perennial Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, DRAMA: American / General, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), RELIGION: Ancient, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, FICTION: Classics, RELIGION: THEOLOGY, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, RELIGION: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Russian & Former Soviet Union