Gabriel García Márquez tells in his new book "Twelve Stories from Abroad" about Latin Americans in Europe. Whether it is the devout old pilgrim in Rome, the ousted president in Geneva, the utterly miserable young honeymooner in Paris, or the author himself in a castle in Arezzo, all of them encounter strange or incomprehensible events. With an unwavering sense of foreign origins and the perspective of a traveler in a foreign land, the Latin Americans experience wondrous everyday occurrences and horrifyingly mundane events. The themes of the short stories, all based on true events, have accompanied Gabriel García Márquez for over twenty years. In a nuanced interplay of place and time, the power of the imagination of a great storyteller has transformed the real locations of the events, and the everyday has gained its charm through the "trick of poetry," as the author puts it.