Notes

The author is the winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels and short stories. A host of extraordinary characters and communities in mesmerizing tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President and Pope at the funeral of a revered matriarch, a very old angel with enormous wings, a town plague by dying bird. Stories from Eyes of a blue dog; Big Mama's funeral; The incredible and sad tale of innocent Erendira and her heartless grandmother.