Innocent Erendira

‘Full of premonitions and echoes of the larger fiction. Marquez has always been a romantic, and these stories abound with love affairs, ruined beauty, and magical women. It is essence of Marquez’
—Guardian

‘Starting with “The Third Resignation” and finishing with “The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother”, it enables the reader to chart Marquez’s progress from the...formal experimentation of his early work to the full-blown magical realism of his major novels. In other words, it becomes more and more fun to read.... It shows what “fabulous” really means.’
—Time Out

‘A single sentence of Garcia Marquez often has more meat to it than many whole novels.’
—Observer

‘Of all the living authors known to me, only one is undoubtedly touched by genius: Gabriel Garcia Marquez.... The exactitude and felicity of his imagery are so great that reading a five-page story written as a single sentence—“The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship”—is a pleasure rather than a chore.’
—Sunday Telegraph

‘Marquez’s vision is quite the nearest thing to pure sensual pleasure that prose can offer.’
—Dai!y Telegraph