by Gabriel García Márquez · LITERATURA RANDOM HOUSE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439711063
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«La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada» is the novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Literatura Random House in hardback (155 pages, in Spanish).
Eréndira lives with her grandmother in a mansion lost in the desert when an accident changes everything: the grandmother, heartless and calculating, turns her granddaughter into a travelling business. The work, wrapped in the author's magical realism, portrays exploitation, lost innocence and the search for freedom through powerful prose and a disturbing fable.
The volume brings together the novella that gives the book its title and six other stories by García Márquez. It includes «Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes» and «El ahogado más hermoso del mundo».
Recommended for readers of Latin American literature and followers of Gabriel García Márquez's narrative.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
