by Gabriel García Márquez · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497592468
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«Los funerales de la Mamá Grande» is the short story collection by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Debolsillo in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Gathered by the author in 1962, the seven stories and the short novel that gives the volume its title take place in Macondo, where the extraordinary breaks into everyday life: dead birds fall, a priest sees the devil, and the all-powerful Mamá Grande dies at 92, summoning to her funeral a procession that goes from the president of the Republic to the Supreme Pontiff, as well as guajiros, smugglers and prostitutes.
The volume belongs to Debolsillo's Contemporánea collection and its original edition dates from 1962.
For readers of magical realism and Latin American narrative who want to complete their approach to the universe of Macondo.
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.
