by Gabriel García Márquez · Plaza y Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401441073
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«Los funerales de la Mamá Grande» is a collection of short stories by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Plaza y Janés in paperback (140 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together seven stories and the short novel that gives it its title. The latter narrates the extravagant funeral of Mamá Grande, matriarch of Macondo, who died at 92. The other stories portray humble lives, social tensions, and abuses of power, with García Márquez's characteristic fantastic style.
Originally published in 1962; this 1974 edition belongs to the Rotativa collection.
For readers of Latin American fiction and magical realism, and for those wanting to discover García Márquez's earlier stories before Cien años de soledad.
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.
