by Gabriel García Márquez · Editorial Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402068798
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«Los funerales de la Mamá Grande» is the collection of short stories and novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Editorial Bruguera in paperback (156 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together eight stories, including the one that gives the book its title: the lavish funeral rites of Mamá Grande, sovereign of Macondo, who dies in the odour of sanctity at the age of ninety-two. It is accompanied by stories such as «La siesta del martes», «En este pueblo no hay ladrones» and «La viuda de Montiel», where rural costumbrismo combines with the irruption of the unusual into everyday life.
Edition of 1962, also cited as 1980, within the Libro Amigo collection. Paperback binding with 156 pages, although some records indicate 158 or 160.
Recommended for those who want to start with García Márquez's short fiction and for readers who already know Macondo through his novels.
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.
