Literary Giveaway Blog Hop 2014!

 

Welcome to the Literary Blog Hop!
The Literary Blog Hop is hosted by the wonderful Judith at Leeswammes blog. Ever since I came across this hop, it has been among my favourites since I always come across some amazing book recommendations.

When  people ask me for a book recommendation I have some hard and fast favourites. One of them is a collection of short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez entitled Strange Pilgrims. I find less people know about this than his famous full novels like the monumental 100 Years of Solitude, or his love stories Love in the Time of Cholera or Of Love and Other Demons.

I love Strange Pilgrims for many reasons. This is short (well, because they are short stories!) which really showcases Marquez's ability to write lusciously and atmospherically without being verbose. I also love that each story is about a different Latin American "pilgrim" -- someone in a hotel, a prostitute, a man flying in a plane -- but in all, they highlight the feelings of alienation of being unrooted from their own culture. I can relate, being an immigrant myself, and my roots also have a very strong Spanish influence that many of the cultural references resonate strongly with me.

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I haven't yet read all of Gabo's work but starting with my slight obsession of collecting the Vintage covers of all his books (look at them, they're gorgeous!), I know I'll get through them in my lifetime.

A Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away last April 2014 at the age of 87. I thought it fitting to celebrate his gift of storytelling to readers around the world through the Literary Blog Hop.

GIVEAWAY!

I am giving away any of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novels (up to US$15) through the Book Depository. I've listed some choices below but as long as it is penned by Gabo, you can win it!

This giveaway is open to anyone who has a shipping address to which the Book Depository ships to. Please check the list here.

Strange Pilgrims: 12 Stories // My review
Of Love and Other Demons

Love in the Time of Cholera
100 Years of Solitude
Leaf Storm // My review

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The Autumn of the Patriarch

Collected Stories
The General in His Labyrinth

Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

No One Writes to the Colonel

Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

In Evil Hour
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
News of a Kidnapping
Collected Novellas

All you have to do is:

Recommend at least one of your favourite literary fiction reads which you think I should read. Of course, tell me what you loved about it.

Leave your answers in the comments. If you have a review, please link it up! Don't leave your email address in the comments, please use the Promosimple entry form below.

Good luck and happy hopping!

Now hop on to the other blogs and maybe you'll win your next literary read:

Leeswammes The Misfortune of Knowing Bibliosue Too Fond Under a Gray Sky Read Her Like an Open Book (US) My Devotional Thoughts WildmooBooks Guiltless Reading Fourth Street Review Nishita’s Rants and Raves Word by Word Words And Peace (US) Ciska’s Book Chest Falling Letters Roof Beam Reader Readerbuzz The Relentless Reader (US) Mom’s Small Victories (US) Daily Mayo (US)

The Emerald City Book Review (US) A Lovely Bookshelf on the Wall Lost Generation Reader Booklover Book Reviews Bay State Reader’s Advisory River City Reading (US) Books Speak Volumes Words for Worms Wensend Bibliophile’s Retreat Readers’ Oasis The Book Musings My Book Retreat (N. Am.) Books on the Table (US)