In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog toweep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a womanparlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetellingposition with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver andhis wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of aCaribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition isvery much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the livesof Latin Americans in Europe, Garcia Marquez conveys the peculiaramalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is theemigre experience.
【作者简介】
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia.His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is hisfirst new novel to be published in a decade and is available as aPenguin Paperback from August 2007. He is the author of severalnovels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories,including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967);The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold(1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded theNobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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