a collection of three of marquez's short stories collections. I feel like this big bindup is really the best way to begin with marquez. it gives the same magical feelings of most of his novels, but at the same time since these are all short stories (with a couple of novellas), it's more compact and packs a punch with the endings.
trying to choose a favorite collection is hard, but truly this book had some of the best literary/magical realism stories i've ever read. no wonder he is the godfather of the genre (to me, at least). also the english translation conveyed that better than the arabic translations i read almost 10 years ago, or maybe my taste in literature has just matured.

1- The Third Resignation:
2- The Other Side of Death:
3- Eva is inside her Cat:
4- Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers:
5- Dialogue with the Mirror:
6- Eyes of a Blue Dog:
7- The Woman who Came at Six O'clock:
8- Nabo:
9- Someone has been disarranging these Roses:
10- The Night of the Curlews:
11- Monologue of Isabel watching it rain in Macondo:
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12- Tuesday Siesta:
13- One of These Days:
14- There are no Thieves in this Town:
15- Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon:
16- Montiel's Widow:
17- One Day after Saturday:
18- Artifical Roses:
19- Big Mama's Funeral:
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20- A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings:
21- The Sea of Lost Time:
22- The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World:
23- Death Constant Beyond Love:
24- The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship:
25- Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles:
26- The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and her heartless Grandmother: