Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Translated by Edith Grossman

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 exPresident of a Caribbean country only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe Garca Mrquez conveys th