Strange Pilgrims. Twelve Stories.

First UK edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. xiii, 188, [6 (blank)]. Publisher's dark green linen cloth, lettered in silver to spine; grey endpapers. Jacket design by Peter Dyer (priced '£14.99 net in UK only' on front flap).

Originally published in 1992 as Doce cuentos peregrinos by Editorial Oveja Negra, Bogotá, Colombia, and Mondadori España, S.A., Madrid. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

Collection of twelve short stories featuring Latin Americans adrift in Europe, some of which originally graced the pages of The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Includes the Kafkaesque, "I Only Came to Use the Phone", about a pretty Mexican, music hall performer, who ends up in an insane asylum after her car breaks down. Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. "A triumph of storytelling." –San Francisco Chronicle