About This Book
García Márquez spent nearly two decades refining these twelve stories, all concerning Latin Americans adrift in Europe — pilgrims in a strange land, caught between worlds, subject to uncanny logic. The magic here is quieter than in One Hundred Years of Solitude, rooted in the particular strangeness of displacement. A woman discovers she has been dead for years. A Colombian woman is committed to a Spanish asylum by mistake. An old couple wait in Geneva for the husband to die. García Márquez writes with the precision of a fabulist and the compassion of someone who knows what it costs to be far from home. Essential.