Collected Stories [Paperback]

Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes:Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral,andThe Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother.Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.

The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident and eloquent in their manner...They are the word cannot be avoided--magical.Garc?a M?rquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform.It is the genius of Garc?a M?rquez that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death.