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Written just before "One Hundred Years of Solitude," this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author's later flowering and greatness."An openly political novel posing the people of the land against the forces of oppression...it has the virtues of wit and compassion and reveals the foundation upon which the later novels were constructed."--Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Star"

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"An openly political novel posing the people of the land against the forces of oppression...it has the virtues of wit and compassion and reveals the foundation upon which the later novels were constructed."-- Jonathan Yardley, "Washington Star""More than a prelude...the dazzling sense of place, the colorful idiosyncrasy of character are present for us to marvel over once again."-- "The New Republic"""One Hundred Years of Solitude" is just around the rain-drenched corner."-- "Boston Globe"
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Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia.Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since he passed away in April 2014.

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  • PublisherHarper Perennial
  • Publication date1991
  • ISBN 10 0060919647
  • ISBN 13 9780060919641
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages192
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