This collection of fiction includes six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short stories and a novella, Innocent Erendira, in which a young girl dreams of freedom after her vicious and avaricious grandmother sells her into prostitution.
Stories include:
- "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
- "The Sea of Lost Time"
- "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"
- "Death Constant Beyond Love"
- "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship"
- "Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles"
- "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother"