Strange Pilgrims

The twelve stories in this new collection by the Nobel prize winner chronicle the surreal, haunting ‘journeys’ of Latin Americans in Europe. Linked by themes of displacement and exile, these vivid, magical stories of love, loneliness, death and the memories of past life conjure images of beauty and horror at once ethereal and exquisitely sensual.

‘Gabriel Garcia Marquez has an appetite for beauty: this book is filled with greedy joys, with small pleasures, polished like apples against a sleeve.’
—Kate Kellaway in the Observer

‘Often touching, often funny, always unexpected, the experience is as enriching as travel itself... This is a triumph of true naivety over urbane sophistication, and love over reason, with never a hint of cynicism in the supremely simple telling.’
—Amanda Hopkinson in the New Statesman & Society

‘Marquez’s genius is for the physical. Characters urinate, devour songbird stew; old people remember their youthful lovemaking... It is this spirit of generous desire that fills Marquez’s work, and the true miracle at work is the author’s precision at conveying it’
—D.L. Flusfeder in The Times

‘As always with Mr Garcia Marquez, and perhaps this is his special gift, the marvel is his tone of voice; the overall mood is...celebratory and full of strange relish at life’s oddness, its poetic incongruities...a fascinating and memorable addition to the canon’
—William Boyd in The New York Times Book Review