Descripción
"A daring and captivating work... García Márquez retains an admirable and vital voice, and the pen of an angel."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review On October 26, 1949, reporter Gabriel García Márquez was sent to the old convent of Santa Clara, which was to be demolished to build a five-star hotel, to witness the emptying of the funerary crypts and to cover the news. The remains of a viceroy of Peru and his secret lover, a bishop, several abbesses, a bachelor of arts, and a marchioness were exhumed. But the surprise came when the third niche of the main altar was opened: a copper-colored head of hair, twenty-two meters and eleven centimeters long, belonging to a girl, spilled out. On the tombstone, the name could barely be read: Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles. García Márquez himself recounts: "My grandmother used to tell me as a child the legend of a twelve-year-old marchioness whose hair dragged like a bridal train, who had died of rabies from a dog bite, and was revered in the Caribbean towns for her many miracles. The idea that that tomb could be hers was my news of the day, and the origin of this book."
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 01/05/2010
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.16w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780307475350
ISBN10: 0307475352
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | General
- Fiction | Magical Realism
About the Author
Gabriel García Márquez, born in Colombia, was one of the most important and influential figures in universal literature. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was also a short story writer, essayist, film critic, screenwriter, and, above all, an intellectual committed to the great problems of our time, primarily those affecting his beloved Colombia and Hispanic America in general. The foremost figure of magical realism, he was ultimately the creator of one of the most dense narrative worlds of meaning that the Spanish language has given in the 20th century. Among his most important works are the novels One Hundred Years of Solitude, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, In Evil Hour, The General in His Labyrinth, Love in the Time of Cholera, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, the short story collection Strange Pilgrims, the first part of his autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale, and his collected speeches, I'm Not Here to Give a Speech. He passed away in 2014.