by Gabriel García Márquez · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401427558
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«Los funerales de la Mamá Grande» is a collection of short stories by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (166 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together seven short stories and the short novel that gives the book its title, which narrates the lavish funeral rites of a woman who died in the odour of sanctity at 92, sovereign of Macondo. The whole mixes power, corruption and daily life in a Caribbean village with the author's characteristic magical realism.
The work originally appeared in 1962; this edition, the fifth, belongs to the El Ave Fénix collection from Plaza & Janés.
For literature students and readers interested in magical realism and Latin American 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.
