Zwölf Geschichten aus der Fremde

In his new book, Twelve Stories from a Foreign Land, Gabriel García Márquez tells of Latin Americans in Europe. Whether it is the pious old pilgrim in Rome, the overthrown president in Geneva, the deathly unhappy young honeymooner in Paris, the author himself in a castle in Arezzo - strange or incomprehensible things happen to them all. With an incorruptible sense of foreign origins and the gaze of the traveler who is in a foreign land, the Latin Americans experience the wondrously mundane and the anciently horrific.The themes of the short stories, all based on true events, have accompanied Gabriel Garcá Márquez for over twenty years. In a nuanced play with place and time, the power of the imagination of a great narrator has transformed the real places of events, and the everyday has found its v through the "cunning of poetry," as the author says.