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In these 12 masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.

On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an 18th-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur.

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. Stories include "No One Writes to the Colonel", "Tuesday Siesta", "One of These Days", "There Are No Thieves in This Town", "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon", "Montiel's Widow", "One Day After Saturday", "Artificial Roses", and "Big Mama's Funeral".

This collection of fiction includes six of Gabriel García Márquez’s short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl dreams of freedom after her vicious and avaricious grandmother sells her into prostitution.

Una colección excepcional que reúne todos los cuentos de Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel.

A Colombian writer is witness to a murder that will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman's bed 20 kilometers away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder, and long-meditated revenge, Vasquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality, and landscape with these fragmented lives.

Las historias contenidas en este libro unen en su acción narrativa la reconstrucción intelectual y el drama cotidiano con adecuadas dosis de ficción y realidad, celebrando en cada cuento el gesto cómplice de la vida y la escritura...

Eyes of a Blue Dog (sp. Ojos de perro azul) is a collection of twenty-two death-themed short stories from the Colombian Nobel-winning novelist, screenwriter, and journalist, Gabriel García Márquez. These early stories of the late Nobel Prize winner were written and published between 1947 and 1955, although, as a book, Blue Dog Eyes would not appear until 1974, when the writer had already published two other books of short stories and four novels, of which the last, One Hundred Years of Solitude, would provide him with his first great international success.

Gabriel García de Oro, gran maestro del Storytelling, nos narra numerosas historias que nos enseñan a poner distancia respecto a lo que nos preocupa, llevando la mente a escenarios de mayor placidez y sabiduría. Desde relatos atemporales hasta textos de su propia cosecha, esta deliciosa antología, locutada y comentada por el propio autor, nos ayuda a desconectar de las tensiones cotidianas, además de comprender mejor la vida.

In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to life Joyce's short stories from Dubliners, as well as selections from the brilliant A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the dream-like Chamber Music.

Gabriel Mendes é um dos escritores brasileiros mais promissores na área do autoconhecimento e é reconhecido por muitos como o possível sucessor de Paulo Coelho. Escrevendo para os mais importantes sites de espiritualidade, ele angariou centenas de leitores que o acompanham desde então. Tornou-se um escritor best-seller da Amazon ao lançar seu livro sobre sua experiência em uma aldeia indígena, intitulado Os 2 Guardiões da Rainha da Floresta. Os textos de Seis Histórias Sobre Você abordam o que consideramos lições de sabedoria universal, com temas como humildade, coragem, companheirismo e disciplina.

Leaf Storm is the first book García Márquez wrote. Already we see the colorful historical background that forms the basis for his later work. It covers the history of Macondo from 1903 to 1928, ending the year the author was born. A man dies, and three people reflect on the story of Macondo’s boom and decline as shown in the family fortunes over three generations. As they attend the wake, the members of the family recall the tragedy that involves them all.

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

El auriga Tristán Cardenilla: En estos catorce cuentos Alfonso Alcalde reúne a personajes y situaciones que se ubican en la precariedad y que son retratados con ternura y humor. Hermanados en la difícil sobrevivencia del espacio de un circo pobre que se instala entre Talcahuano y San Vicente, hombres y animales comparten una misma situación de necesidades materiales irresueltas.

El afortunado hiperrealismo que caracteriza la obra de J. M. Servín adquiere en esta serie de relatos una dimensión inquietante que sólo la sutileza y vitalidad de su prosa pueden ofrecer. Servín encarna los peores escenarios de la decadencia urbana en la piel de personajes desesperadamente solos, desesperadamente humanos; lo mismo la intimidad de sórdidas vecindades que el abismo interior del hombre común: amas de casa, dipsómanos, oficinistas de bajo perfil, pandilleros o empleados de zapatería que se valen de los métodos más oscuros para resistir al hastío.

Relatos y poemas que se entrelazan en una visión medio alucinada del mundo actual. Eso contiene el llamativo audiolibro de Rubén Scollo. El cuento que le da nombre al audiolibro, Guirnaldas de fuego, describe situaciones que viven los inmigrantes llegados desde tierras calientes a una Europa demasiadas veces hostil. Es la obra de un narrador capaz de hacerle justicia a la perplejidad e inquietud que siente frente a mucho de lo que le ocurre a él y a sus semejantes, y que por eso mismo prueba con diferentes registros para expresarse.

“Cobo piensa con nostalgia en ese personaje de ojos tristes que, abandonado en el rincón de la sala, parecía implorarle que le permitiera llegar con vida al final de la historia”. Con espíritu zen, cada uno de estos 23 cuentos breves retrata una escena cotidiana que conduce a una revelación, a una comprensión espiritual. Curiosos, a veces divertidos o inquietantes, estos relatos están protagonizados por personajes del día a día: un escritor, el hombre que está tirado en una esquina, el trompetista, el lector.

There are no holidays in the Abyss. Despite her friends' less-than-enthusiastic reception, Olivia is determined to have a wonderful Christmas - and if she has anything to say about it, Holden will, too. A brilliant idea for the perfect present to remind him of what is important at this time of year opens up more than she bargained for.