A Collection of Short Stories
About this ebook
Spanning more than two decades, this collection combines humor, history, and mysticism to tell 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.
Stories include:
“The Third Resignation”“Eva Is Inside Her Cat”“Tubal-Cain Forges a Star”“The Other Side of Death”“Dialogue with the Mirror”“Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers”“How Nathanael Makes a Visit”“Eyes of a Blue Dog”“The Woman Who Came at Six O’clock”“The Night of the Curlews”“Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses”“Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait”“A Man Arrives in the Rain”“Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo”“Tuesday Siesta”“One of These Days”“There Are No Thieves in This Town”“Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon”“Montiel’s Widow”“One Day after Saturday”“Artificial Roses”“Big Mama’s Funeral”“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”“The Sea of Lost Time”“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”“Death Constant beyond Love”“The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship”“Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles”“The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother
About the author
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was an author, journalist, and pioneer of the Latin American boom. Among his many books are The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016) was an American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. His translations include works by Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Franco. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College.
