Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

This new collection of short fiction by one of the world's greatest living writers includes a novella and eleven short stories and represents some of Garcia Marquez's earlier work of the 1950's and 1970's. The interest, audience and critical reception of Garcia Marquez continues to grow, and in these stories one finds the uniquely original qualities that have made his work famous throughout the world0myth and mystery, pathos and passion, imagination and reality, characters of magic and truth. Brilliantly translated by Gregory Rabassa, this is the first time these marvelous stories have appeared in book form in English.