Living to Tell the Tale by Marquez Gabriel Garcia
The author 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. This book recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured.
Márquez's greatest bookAs a reading experience it is completely magical * Observer *
Márquez's greatest book. As a reading experience it is completely magical * Observer *
Márquez's greatest book. As a reading experience it is completely magical * Observer *
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141032573 |
| ISBN 10 | 014103257X |
| Title | Living to Tell the Tale |
| Author | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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