Doce Cuentos Peregrinos / Twelve Pilgrim Tales
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Doce Cuentos Peregrinos / Twelve Pilgrim Tales

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En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena su perro a llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para s misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica. En Ginebra, el conductor de una ambulancia y su esposa acogen al abandonado y aparentemente moribundo ex presidente de un pas caribeo, slo para descubrir que sus ambiciones polticas siguen intactas.

En estos doce relatos magistrales acerca de las vidas de latinoamericanos en Europa, Garca Mrquez logra transmitir la amalgama de melancola, tenacidad, pena y ambicin que forma la experiencia del emigrante.


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In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact.

In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, Garca Mrquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the migr experience.

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