Strange Pilgrims

<p><i>Strange Pilgrims</i> is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez author of <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude </i>and <i>Love in the Time of Cholera</i>. <br><br><b>'The first thing Señora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the port of Riohacha'</b><br><br>The twelve stories here tell of Latin Americans adrift in Europe: a bereaved father in Rome for an audience with the Pope carries a box shaped like a cello case; an aging streetwalker waits for death in Barcelona with a dog trained to weep at her grave; a panic-stricken husband takes his wife to a Parisian hospital to treat a cut and never sees her again. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, <i>Strange Pilgrims</i> is a triumph of storytelling by our most brilliant writer.<br><br>'Celebratory and full of strange relish at life's oddness, the stories draw their strength from Márquez's generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent' William Boyd<br><br>'The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton<br><br>'Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself' <i>New Statesman</i></p> <p><i>Strange Pilgrims</i> is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez author of <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude </i>and <i>Love in the Time of Cholera</i>. <br><br><b>'The first thing Señora Prudencia Linero noticed when she reached the port of Naples was that it had the same smell as the port of Riohacha'</b><br><br>The twelve stories here tell of Latin Americans adrift in Europe: a bereaved father in Rome for an audience with the Pope carries a box shaped like a cello case; an aging streetwalker waits for death in Barcelona with a dog trained to weep at her grave; a panic-stricken husband takes his wife to a Parisian hospital to treat a cut and never sees her again. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, <i>Strange Pilgrims</i> is a triumph of storytelling by our most brilliant writer.<br><br>'Celebratory and full of strange relish at life's oddness, the stories draw their strength from Márquez's generous feel for character, good and bad, boorish and innocent' William Boyd<br><br>'The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton<br><br>'Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself' <i>New Statesman</i></p>