Above stories entering collection, great Маркес worked eighteen years. Not that is why, that did a writer go back to them over and over, all of them delight sharp-cutness of style, perfection of form and surprizing exactness of embodiment of authorial idea?About people that bring in voluntarily (or not very) banishment the usual feeling of life in the center of magic, surrealism events - and involuntarily infect by him surrounding.Twelve little masterpieces.Twelve short histories about латиноамериканцах in Europe.Barcelona. The Brazilian "night-fly" is obsessed by an idea to teach the dog to mourn a grave that will become the last mestome of her упокоения.Geneva. The outcast dictator of the little Caribbean country becomes a guest in the house of driver of "first-aid".Tuscany. Family of tourists unexpectedly meets with by a ghost in a lock, where now a famous writer dwells from Venezuela.That yet will present Latin America to boring and bored Europe - what miracle, what danger?