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He is perhaps the most acclaimed, revered and widely read writer of our time, and in this first volume of a planned trilogy - a book that has already become a bestseller in its Spanish-language edition both abroad and in the United States - the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans García Márquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the beginning of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, the aliveness of a conversation with the reader: a tale of people, places and events as they occur to him: family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved Colombia, parts of his history until now undisclosed and incidents that would later appear, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction. And as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life - in this instance, his own. A vivid, powerful, beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.
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An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny -- Mary Wesley, Sunday Telegraph
Marquez is the master weaver of the real and the conjectured. His descriptive powers astound. -- VS Pritchett, New Statesman
Marquez’s vision is quite the nearest thing to pure sensual pleasure that prose can offer -- Observer
Perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Cervantes -- Pablo Neruda
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Marquez is the master weaver of the real and the conjectured. His descriptive powers astound. -- VS Pritchett, New Statesman
Marquez’s vision is quite the nearest thing to pure sensual pleasure that prose can offer -- Observer
Perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Cervantes -- Pablo Neruda
The autobiography of one of the world's greatest writers
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0224072781
- ISBN 13 9780224072786
- BindingHardcover
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