Admired by millions across the world, Gabriel Garcia Marquez first came to prominence as an imagininative writer of genius with his fantastical One Hundred Years of Solitude, published by Penguin in 1972. Alternatively enchanting and disconcerting, the four tales in this volume describe the frailty of humanity and the bewitching force of the imagination, in a world where the lines between reality and dream are hopelessly blurred.