| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0140157565 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780140157567 |
| No of pages | 304 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Penguin India |
| Published Date | 14 Oct 2000 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0140157565 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780140157567 |
| No of pages | 304 |
| 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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The twenty-six always compelling, often astonishing, stories in this collection are published in chronological order, so readers can appreciate the Nobel prize-winning writer’s progress from early experimentation, to full-blown magical realism.
Each tale is not just a read, but an experience: you join a community in the thrall of a corpse in ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World’; sail through ‘The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship’ a five-page story written as a single sentence, and feel your way, blinded, through ‘The Night of the Curlews’. ‘A single sentence of Garcia Marquez often has more meat to it than many whole novels’ Observer.