Innocent Erendira - Softcover

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140157522 ISBN 13: 9780140157529

Publisher: PENGUIN INDIA, 2010

Synopsis

Innocent erendira and other stories is a compilation of some of gabriel garcia marquez's most famous stories the book contains eleven short stories and one novella, the incredible and sad tale of innocent erendira and her soulless grandmother this book is a collection of some of garcia's earlier works, which were mainly written before his book one hundred years of solitude brought him recognition and made him famous in the literary worldthe incredible and sad tale of innocent erendira and her soulless grandmother is easily the most famous work in this book it narrates the story of a young girl named erendira, who is forced to live with her grandmother when she unknowingly sets fire to her grandmother's house she is then forced to repay her debt by prostituting herself after many years, one of her clients falls in love with her and decides to help her escape the two of them formulate a plan and erendira decides to kill her grandmother her lover though, is iffy about killing her grandmother and he eventually stabs her while she is asleep erendira then runs off into the night leaving her lover alone with her dead grandmother the novella captures a whole range of emotions brought to the fore by marquez's brilliant writing stylethe innocent erendira and other stories is a wonderful compilation of stories written by the colombian writer and is a good way of initiating someone to his writing style the book was published by penguin india as new edition in 2000 and is available in paperback key features: the book was adapted into an art film erendira in 1983

About this title

About the Author:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: PENGUIN INDIA
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0140157522
• ISBN 13: 9780140157529
• Binding: Paperback