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This collection features twelve extraordinary stories by a Nobel Prize-winning author, renowned for his classic works. Set in contemporary Europe, the narratives explore the unique and remarkable experiences of Latin Americans abroad. An ailing Caribbean ex-President finds an unlikely friendship with an ambitious ambulance driver and his strong-willed wife in Geneva. Margarito Duarte travels from the Colombian Andes to Rome with a cello-shaped box to present to the Pope. In Vienna, a woman known as Frau Frieda supports herself by sharing her dreams with wealthy families. A Mexican performer, stranded in Barcelona due to a car breakdown, ends up in an asylum. A vacationing family in Tuscany encounters a ghost at a Renaissance castle owned by a famous Venezuelan writer. Maria dos Prazeres, a former lady of the night in Barcelona, dreams of death and begins planning her funeral. A widow in a Saint Francis habit sails from Argentina to meet the Pope, while a beautiful Caribbean boy descends into madness in Spain. A German governess wreaks havoc on her charges’ summer, leading to her own downfall. Billy Sanchez takes his pregnant wife to a Paris hospital, never to see her again. In this mesmerizing collection, the author invites readers into enchanting worlds, leaving them spellbound.
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Strange Pilgrims, Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1994
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- Titel
- Strange Pilgrims
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman
- Verlag
- Penguin Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1994
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0140239405
- ISBN13
- 9780140239409
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Sammelwerke, Anthologien, Kurzgeschichten, Frankreich, Geschichten, Südeuropa, Italien, Literarische Fiktion, Europa, Spanische Literatur, Spanien, Österreich, Magischer Realismus, Ausgewählte Werke, Mystik, Hispanoamerikanische Literatur, Erzählung, Südamerika, Exil, Lateinamerika, Wanderung, Kolumbien, Wallfahrtsorte, Pilger, Kolumbianische Literatur
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1992
- Originaltitel
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- Bewertung
- 4,05 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- This collection features twelve extraordinary stories by a Nobel Prize-winning author, renowned for his classic works. Set in contemporary Europe, the narratives explore the unique and remarkable experiences of Latin Americans abroad. An ailing Caribbean ex-President finds an unlikely friendship with an ambitious ambulance driver and his strong-willed wife in Geneva. Margarito Duarte travels from the Colombian Andes to Rome with a cello-shaped box to present to the Pope. In Vienna, a woman known as Frau Frieda supports herself by sharing her dreams with wealthy families. A Mexican performer, stranded in Barcelona due to a car breakdown, ends up in an asylum. A vacationing family in Tuscany encounters a ghost at a Renaissance castle owned by a famous Venezuelan writer. Maria dos Prazeres, a former lady of the night in Barcelona, dreams of death and begins planning her funeral. A widow in a Saint Francis habit sails from Argentina to meet the Pope, while a beautiful Caribbean boy descends into madness in Spain. A German governess wreaks havoc on her charges’ summer, leading to her own downfall. Billy Sanchez takes his pregnant wife to a Paris hospital, never to see her again. In this mesmerizing collection, the author invites readers into enchanting worlds, leaving them spellbound.