Living to Tell the Tale - Softcover

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241968771 ISBN 13: 9780241968772

Publisher: Penguin, 2014

Synopsis

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured.

'My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house'

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents and the memories of his Colombian childhood.

In the first part of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's memoir, the Nobel Prize-winning author returns to the atmosphere and influences that shaped his formidable imagination and formed the basis of his world-famous, and much-loved, fiction.

'A treasure trove, a discovery of a lost land we knew existed but couldn't find. A thrilling miracle of a book' The Times

'A marvellous journey. Never less than a miracle' Sunday Times

'Márquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else can do' Salman Rushdie

About this title

Review:

Márquez's greatest book. As a reading experience it is completely magical (Observer)

From the Publisher:

The autobiography of one of the world's greatest writers

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0241968771
• ISBN 13: 9780241968772
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496