Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe by Nobel laureate author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. The twelve stories here narrate the adventures of Latin Americans lost in Europe: a grieving father in Rome for a meeting with the Pope carries a sack resembling a violin case; an elderly prostitute awaits death in Barcelona with a dog trained to cry at her grave; a panicked husband takes his wife to a Paris hospital to treat a wound and never sees her again. Combining horror and nostalgia, surreal comedy, and the poetry of everyday life, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of storytelling from our most brilliant author. The stories are festive and filled with the strange joy of life's uniqueness, drawing their strength from Marquez's generous sense of characters, both good and bad, common and innocent.

Pages: 208, Dimensions: 13x13cm.