Collected Stories

About Book :

The twenty-six always compelling, often astonishing, stories in this collection are published in chronological order, so readers can appreciate the Nobel prize-winning writer’s progress from early experimentation, to full-blown magical realism. Each tale is not just a read, but an experience: you join a community in the thrall of a corpse in “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”; sail through “The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship” a five-page story written as a single sentence, and feel your way, blinded, through “The Night of the Curlews”. ‘A single sentence of Garcia Marquez often has more meat to it than many whole novels’ – “Observer”.

About the Author

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. 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. –This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.