’Garcia Marquez is obsessed by death, by roscs and by an ability to see life as if from just around the corner He writes with power, using terrifying images. He thscinates utterly even while repelling and shocking’

--Daily Telegraph

’An imaginative writer of genius, the topmost pinnacle of an entire generation of Latin American novelists of cathedral-like proportions’

--Guardian

In the title story of this collection of exotic and mystical tales, Erendira accidentally burns down her grandmother’s house and is forced to pay her relative back with money she earns from prostitution, But later, she thinks of a much more appropriate way of paying back the crotchcty old woman. Garcia Marquez’s exploration of power,love, death and duty echoes through all the stories in this extraordinary book.

The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother : 1

The Sea of Lost Time : 60

Death ConstantBeyond Love : 83

The Third Resignation : 94

The Other Side of Death : 106

Eva Is Inside Her Cat : 117

Dialogue with the Mirror : 131

Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers : 140

Eyes of a Blue Dog : 146

The Woman Who Came at Six O’Clock : 155

Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses : 171

The Night of the Curlews : 177