Este libro excepcional reune la novela corta que le otorga su titulo y otros seis relatos mas, de los que todos menos uno pertenecen a la etapa de plena madurez del escritor. Fueron los anos en los que Macondo le abrio las puertas del realismo magico: la frase se hace mas larga y caudalosa, la realidad se expresa mediante formulas magicas y legendarias, los milagros se insertan en la vida cotidiana. La candida Erendira y su abuela desalmada personifican...

When is your culture bad for you? That is the question that weaves its way through this collection chronicling the lives of Cuban Americans from WWII-era Havana to contemporary times in "el norte." Whether they inhabit blue collar neighborhoods in the northeast, the increasingly Latino-populated south, or Florida, the characters that populate this book -- many of whom are the children and grandchildren of exiles, who have been raised in traditional...

In La granja, a journalist gets lost in a storm and is saved by a farmer who hides a secret. In La dama del ciervo, two towns, populated by mythical-like creatures, fight over the possession of a gem called, the water crystal. Un hada en el umbral de la tierra, is set in the distant future, where a mother and her son are stranded on a seemingly deserted planet and discover that an undiscover creature lurks in the shadows.