Collected Stories

Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and communities in his mesmerizing tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President and the Pope at the funeral of Macondo’s revered matriarch; a very oíd ángel with enormous wings, stranded in a young couple’s back garden; a town plagued by dying birds that fall from the sky; and an awestruck village captivated by a beautiful drowned sailor. Teeming with the magical oddities for which his novéis are loved, Márquez’s stories are a delight.