Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories

TranslatorGregory Rabassa
FormatCollection / Anthology
LanguageEnglish
Year2005
PublisherHarperCollins
CountryUnited States
Pages183
ISBN978-0060751586
Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories

This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez's earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.

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Contents The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother : 1 The Sea of Lost Time : 60 Death Constant Beyond Love : 83 The Third Resignation : 94 The Other Side of Death : 106 Eva Is Inside Her Cat : 117 Dialogue with the Mirror : 131 Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers : 140 Eyes of a Blue Dog : 146 The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock : 155 Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses : 171 The Night of the Curlews : 177

Contains

Short Works (11)

1.

Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes [“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”]

2.

Blacamán el bueno vendedor de milagros [“Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles”]

3.

Muerte constante más allá del amor [“Death Constant Beyond Love”]

4.

La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada [“Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother”]

5.

El ahogado más hermoso del mundo [“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”]

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