Overview
Strange Pilgrims (original Spanish-language title: Doce cuentos peregrinos) is a collection of twelve loosely related short stories by the Nobel Prize–winning Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.
Not published until 1992, the stories that make up this collection were originally written during the seventies and eighties. Each of the stories touches on the theme of dislocation and the strangeness of life in a foreign land, although quite what "foreign" means is one of García Márquez's central questions. García Márquez himself spent some years as a virtual exile from his native Colombia.
The 12 Stories
The twelve stories are:
Bon Voyage, Mr President (Buen Viaje, Señor Presidente)
The Saint (La Santa)
Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane (El Avión de la Bella Durmiente)
I Sell My Dreams (Me Alquilo para Soñar)
"I Only Came to Use the Phone" (Solo Vine a Hablar por Teléfono)
The Ghosts of August (Espantos de Agosto)
María dos Prazeres
Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen (Diecisiete Ingleses Envenenados)
Tramontana
Miss Forbes's Summer of Happiness (El Verano Feliz de la Señora Forbes)
Light is Like Water (La Luz es como el Agua)
The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow (El Rastro de tu Sangre en la Nieve)
Story summaries
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