A Collection of Short Stories

by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa (Translator), J. S. Bernstein (Translator)

An enchanting new collection of twenty-nine short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez, a master storyteller who “forces upon us at every page the wonder and extravagance of life” (New York Review of Books)

Spanning more than two decades, this collection combines humor, history, and mysticism to tell stories about the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, lost opportunities and present joys, memories, illusions, death, and other themes that resound throughout García Márquez’s fiction.

Stories include:

“The Third Resignation”
“Eva Is Inside Her Cat”
“Tubal-Cain Forges a Star”
“The Other Side of Death”
“Dialogue with the Mirror”
“Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers”
“How Nathanael Makes a Visit”
“Eyes of a Blue Dog”
“The Woman Who Came at Six O’clock”
“The Night of the Curlews”
“Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses”
“Nabo: The Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait”
“A Man Arrives in the Rain”
“Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo”
“Tuesday Siesta”
“One of These Days”
“There Are No Thieves in This Town”
“Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon”
“Montiel’s Widow”
“One Day after Saturday”
“Artificial Roses”
“Big Mama’s Funeral”
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
“The Sea of Lost Time”
“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
“Death Constant beyond Love”
“The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship”
“Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles”
“The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

Genres: Short Stories

358 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 11, 2022

About the author

Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá 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 wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.

Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, García Márquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien años de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. García Márquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layers of fantasy.

Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. García Márquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons.

(Arabic: جابرييل جارسيا ماركيز) (Hebrew: גבריאל גארסיה מרקס) (Ukrainian: Ґабріель Ґарсія Маркес) (Belarussian: Габрыель Гарсія Маркес) (Russian: Габриэль Гарсия Маркес)