Collection of twelve stories that poignantly depict South Americans adrift in Europe. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Doce Cuentos Peregrinos is a triumph of narrative sorcery by the Nobel Prize-winning author.

When she is bitten by a rabid dog in colonial South America, twelve-year-old Sierva María is sent to a convent to endure torturous therapies and meets bookish Father Cayetano Delaura, with whom she shares a doomed affair.

"Una colección excepcional que reúne todos los cuentos de Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel. El lector encontrará los primeros relatos que García Márquez publicó en Ojos de perro azul, incluyendo el "Monólogo de Isabel viendo llover en Macondo", primera referencia al lugar imaginario que se convertiría en el espacio literario más reconocido de nuestro tiempo tras la publicación de Cien años de soledad. A partir de entonces...

Presents an anthology of eight short stories that illuminate the mythical world of Macondo.

Fresh, accomplished, and fearless, Vida marks the debut of Patricia Engel, a young author of immense talent and promise. Vida follows a single narrator, Sabina, as she navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora and struggles to find her place within and beyond the net of her strong, protective, but embattled family. In "Lucho," Sabina's family-already "foreigners in a town of blancos"-is shunned by the community when a...

Although there are many famed poets in Colombia, there is little published fiction by young women authors. It is rare to find any stories written by women less than 40 years old. Now, in this collection, 14 young Colombian women break that silence. It contains stories by MarIa Acosta, Olga MartInez, Juliana Borrero, Beatriz Mendoza, MarIa Castilla, Ximena MexIa, Andrea Cheer, Liliana Rico, Melissa DIaz, Ruth Rivas, Mercedes Guhl, Carolina SanIn, Pilar...