The great Marquez worked on the stories included in the collection for eighteen years. Is it because the writer returned to them again and again, they all admire the refinement of style, perfection of form and amazing accuracy of the embodiment of the author's idea? About people who bring into voluntary (or not so) exile the familiar feeling of life in the center of magical, surreal events — and unwittingly infect others with it. Twelve little masterpieces. Twelve short stories about Latin Americans in Europe. Barcelona. A Brazilian moth is obsessed with teaching her dog to mourn the grave that will be her final resting place...Geneva. The exiled dictator of a small Caribbean country becomes a guest in the home of an ambulance driver...Tuscany. A family of tourists unexpectedly meets a ghost in a castle where a famous writer from Venezuela now lives...What else will Latin America give to a dull and bored Europe - what miracle, what danger?