by Gabriel García Márquez · Dom Quixote · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722031578
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«A incrível e triste história da Cândida Eréndira e da sua avó desalmada» is Gabriel García Márquez's story collection in Portuguese, in paperback (160 pages).
It brings together six short stories and a novella: small towns change due to extraordinary events that mix the real and the unusual. The title story follows Eréndira, a teenager forced by her grandmother into prostitution after an accidental fire; it is an example of magical realism about exploitation and survival.
Portuguese translation by Pedro Tamen; Dom Quixote edition. The Spanish original, from 1972, is titled «La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada».
For readers of magical realism and Latin American short fiction, also for those seeking a Portuguese edition of García Márquez.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
