Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel Garci­a Marquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and communities in his mesmerising tales of everyday life: smugglers, bagpipers, the President and Pope at the funeral of Macondo's revered matriarch; a very old angel with enormous wings. Teeming with the magical oddities for which his novels are loved, Marquez's stories are a delight. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Collected Stories are re-issued on Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.