The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother

by Gabriel García Márquez

Genres: Literary Fiction; Short Stories

Synopsis

This collection of fiction includes six of Gabriel García Márquez’s short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl dreams of freedom after her vicious and avaricious grandmother sells her into prostitution.

Stories include:

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” “The Sea of Lost Time” “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” “Death Constant beyond Love” “The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship” “Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles”The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother