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    <body><![CDATA[حجيج غرباء- عبارة عن مجموعة قصصية تتكون من 12 قصة قصيرة.<br/>7 قصص منها لم تعجبني , و 3 قصص أعجبتني كثيرا, ولعلها هي التي شفعت للكتاب فقيمته بـ3/5<br/><br/>القصص التي أعجبتني :<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17369407">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange Pilgrims is a collection of short stories that Gabriel Garcia Marquez had rattling around his brain.  The stories hardly carry the heft and magic of his novels, but some of them are quite striking.  &quot;I Only Came to Use the Phone&quot; and &quot;The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1804576">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly superb short story collection. I love the short stories of Marquez and his later pieces are even better than his earlier tales. This book features twelve stories written between 1976 and 1982. The first story, 'Bon Voyage,  Mr President', states the general theme of those that follow: Latin ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22698628">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this during my rabid Garcia Marquez consumption of last year and it's one of the only short story collections that I actually enjoyed.  Usually, I can't get into short stories, I always find the character development lacking and then just can't relate, plus I always feel cheated at the end on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2491382">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have only read &quot;100 Years...&quot;, which is beyond a doubt a true masterpiece. <br/><br/>Here, some stories seem irregular. Thats about all I can find as detriment to this clever collection of short (some EXTREMELY so) stories. They all have several things in common: the protagonists are L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41530535">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read much Marquez, and I'm sure it's hard to give him only 3 stars, but I have to read 100 years of solitude to compare it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a huge fan of Marquez's writing.  I even try to space out his books so that the magic of opening one of them feels fresh.  This book I thought lacked some of his trademark imagery and beauty although the stories moved at a quick, entertaining pace.  Moreover, these stories are all about various...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47515904">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ لذيذة قصصه  يصنع من ( الخرافة )  حكايات تشد أنفاسنا حتى آخرها  , وتكون كأسطورة حديثة ستعيش قروناً قادمة , قصصه القصيرة مختلفه كلياً  ربما أنها قال عنها قصص  طارت بين سلة ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67767868">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[pentru ca s'a zis <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52042878">aici</a> tot ce era de zis am sa scriu doar citeva citate din povestirile mele favorite.<br/><br/>~~~<br/><br/>Miercurea urmatoare, in vreme ce parintii erau la <em>Batalia pentru Alger</em>, lumea care trecea pe Castellana vazu o cascada de lumina ce se revarsa de pe o cladire veche, ascun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52044359">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Aceste 12 povestiri ilustreaza perfectiunea textului marquezian. Nicio fraza pierduta in text, nicio infloritura fara rost, niciun detaliu inutil, nicio virgula pusa gresit. Este si datorita &quot;calatoriei&quot; pe care aceste povestiri superbe au parcurs-o de la momentul nasterii ideii pana la pu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52042878">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine yourself coming home from a long day's work or perhaps returning from an evening dining with friends. You open your front door and automatically turn on the lights, your thoughts, a morass of trivialities, what happened with the boss, some off-color remark your best friend's girlfriend made ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33828941">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact. <br/> <br/>In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful, unforgettable book. I picked it out of the various Márquez books as it seemed like a simpler introduction to this acclaimed author. It was. The book was wonderful in its structure - I could pick it up without that feeling of “what the hell happened twenty pages ago” that I get with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30327881">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Nobel Prize-winning author of <em>Love in the Time of Cholera   </em>presents a collection of twelve stories that feature an aging   streetwalker and her gravesite-mourning dog, a bereaved father's   journey to Rome, a paranoid husband, and more. Reprint. <em> AB. K. </em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best short story collection I've ever read, it was quite memorable.  It's a collection of twelve short stories that he stopped and started over 20 years. <br/><br/>I found it interesting that one of his comments was that a short story is much harder to write than a novel. Marquez is one of the ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2221985">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena su perro a llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para sí misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica. En Ginebra, el conductor de una ambulancia y su esposa acogen al abandonado y aparentemente moribundo ex presidente de un país caribeño, sólo para descubrir que sus ambiciones políticas siguen intactas. <br/><br/>En estos doce relatos magistrales acerca de las vidas de latinoamericanos en Europa, García Márquez logra transmitir la amalgama de melancolía, tenacidad, pena y ambición que forma la experiencia del emigrante.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[¿Por qué doce, por qué cuentos y por qué peregrinos? El mismo García Márquez hace la pregunta. Cuentos que se formularon durante su vida como escritor, cuentos que soñó, cuentos que se le escaparon de los labios incluso antes de llevar al papel. Cuentos simples, fantásticos, tiernos o escal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58810669">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just started reading this. It belonged to my friend, Timothy Ford, who passed away. It is beautiful and very moving. I can't believe that these are translated from Spanish. They must be breathtaking in his native language. I don't know enough about magic realism but I want to learn more. I can fee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64039685">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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