'The first thing Senora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the port of Riohacha...' Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sense of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world...These pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience with all Marquez's humour, warmth and colour, what it is to be a Latin American adrift in Europe or, indeed, any outsider living far from home.
| ISBN | 0141032499 | | Pages | 208 | | ISBN13 | 9780141032498
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 143 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9780140230963 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 07 Feb 2008 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 863.64 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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Filled with greedy joys, with small pleasures, polished like apples against a sleeve Observer Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself New Statesman Celebratory and full of strange relish at life's oddness. The stories draw their strength from Marquez's generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent William Boyd
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