| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0140157522 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780140157529 |
| No of pages | 183 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin India |
| Published Date | 14 Oct 2000 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0140157522 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780140157529 |
| No of pages | 183 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin India |
| Published Date | 14 Oct 2000 |
Gabriel García Márquez, (born March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia—died April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico),
Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Caen naos de Soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude).
He was the fourth Latin American to be so honored, having been preceded by Chilean poets Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda in 1971 and by Guatemalan novelist Miguel Angel Asturias in 1967.
With Jorge Luis Borges, García Márquez is the best-known Latin American writer in history.
In addition to his masterly approach to the novel, he was a superb crafter of short stories and an accomplished journalist.
In both his shorter and longer fictions, García Márquez achieved the rare feat of being accessible to the common reader while satisfying the most demanding of sophisticated critics.
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Innocent Erendira And Other Stories is a compilation of some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most famous stories. The book contains eleven short stories and one novella, The Incredible And Sad Tale Of Innocent Erendira And Her Soulless Grandmother. This book is a collection of some of Garcia’s earlier works, which were mainly written before his book One Hundred Years Of Solitude brought him recognition and made him famous in the literary world.
The Incredible And Sad Tale Of Innocent Erendira And Her Soulless Grandmother is easily the most famous work in this book. It narrates the story of a young girl named Erendira, who is forced to live with her grandmother when she unknowingly sets fire to her grandmother’s house. She is then forced to repay her debt by prostituting herself. After many years, one of her clients falls in love with her and decides to help her escape. The two of them formulate a plan and Erendira decides to kill her grandmother. Her lover though, is iffy about killing her grandmother and he eventually stabs her while she is asleep. Erendira then runs off into the night leaving her lover alone with her dead grandmother. The novella captures a whole range of emotions brought to the fore by Marquez’s brilliant writing style.
The Innocent Erendira And Other Stories is a wonderful compilation of stories written by the Colombian writer and is a good way of initiating someone to his writing style. The book was published by Penguin India as new edition in 2000 and is available in paperback.
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The book was adapted into an art film Erendira in 1983.