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Living to Tell the Tale

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)

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| Hardcover | 9781400041343

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In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate 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 Gabriel García Márquez’s life frContinue

In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate 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 Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start 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, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader—a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. 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.

Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.

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  • Magic moments

    Living to Tell the Tale by Gabríel Garcia Márquez translated by Eidth Grossman Jonathan Cape £18.99, pp484 Unlinke diaries - filled with the raw, disjointed stuff of immediate experience - autobiographies often present their author's life as an order ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • A welcome to the real world

    Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman 500pp, Cape, £18.99 In his fiction, the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez has created a magical world in which the characters are ruled by passion and ideas of hono ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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    It's amazing how much of GGM's novels came from his real life. If you like his fiction, this is a must-read.

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