Strange Pilgrims

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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 Mr Garcia Marquez's central questions in this book. Mr Garcia Marquez himself spent some years as a virtual exile from his native Colombia.

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)
  

The Work of Gabriel García Márquez
Novels The Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera, The General in his Labyrinth, Of Love and Other Demons
Short Stories: Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, Big Mama's Funeral, The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and her Heartless Grandmother, Strange Pilgrims, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, For The Sake of A Country Within Reach Of The Children, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Non-Fiction The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Clandestine in Chile:The Adventures of Miguel Littin, News of a Kidnapping, Living to Tell the Tale