Summary
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Incredible and Sad Story of the Innocent Eréndira and Her Soulless Grandmother
This unique book, in addition to the title novella The Incredible and Sad Story of the Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother, contains six other short stories, all but one of which were written and published before the period of the writer's full maturity. These are the years in which Macondo opened the door to magical realism, in which reality is expressed through magical forms and legends, and miracles are brought into everyday life.
The innocent Eréndira and her heartless grandmother personify innocence and evil, love and its depravity, and the novella itself evokes events from medieval epics and Provençal or troubadour songs, although, as usual, it is immersed in a rich, varied and luxurious the world of the Caribbean.
Eréndira's grandmother has precisely calculated that her granddaughter owes her eight hundred and seventy-two thousand and three hundred and fifteen pesos for the damage she caused her, and because of this she drags her from place to place offering her to soldiers, smugglers, merchants, postmen... Can love save the young girl from the hell her cruel grandmother condemned her to?
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