Collected Stories

<p><i>Collected Stories </i>brings together many of Gabriel García Márquez's spellbinding short stories, each brimming with a blend of the surreal, the magical, and the everyday that Nobel-Prize-winner and author of <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> Márquez is known for.</p><p>Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and communities in his mesmerizing tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President and Pope at the funeral of Macondo's revered matriarch; a every old angel with enormous wings, stranded in a young couple's back garden; a town plagued by dying birds that fall from the sky and an awestruck village captivated by a beautiful drowned sailor. Teeming with the magical oddities for which his novels are loved, Márquez's stories are a delight.</p><p><b>'These stories abound with love affairs, ruined beauty, and magical women. It is essence of Márquez' <i>Guardian</i></b></p><p><b>'Of all the living authors known to me, only one is undoubtedly touched by genius: Gabriel García Márquez'<i> Sunday Telegraph</i></b></p><p><b>'It becomes more and more fun to read. It shows what "fabulous" really means' <i>Time Out</i></b></p>