Innocent Erendira: and Other Stories

This extraordinary collection of fiction, representing some of Gabriel García Márquez's earlier work from the 1950s, as well as stories written in the 1960s and '70s, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.

This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez's earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl who dreams of freedom cannot escape the reach of her vicious and avaricious grandmother.

“It is the genius of the mature Garcia Marques that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death.” - John Leonard, New York Times

“García Márquez’s fictional universe has the same staggeringly gratifying density and texture as Proust’s Faubourg Saint-Germain and Joyce’s Dublin .… Arguably the best of the Latin Americans.” - Martin Kaplan, New Republic