Living to Tell the Tale

In living to tell the tale gabriel garcía márquez - 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 housegabriel garcía márquez 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 childhoodin the first part of gabriel garcía márquezs 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, fictiona treasure trove, a discovery of a lost land we knew existed but couldnt find a thrilling miracle of a book the timesa marvellous journey never less than a miracle sunday timesmárquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else can do salman rushdieas one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of latin american literature, gabriel garcía márquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories those published in translation by penguin include autumn of the patriarch, bon voyage mrpresident, collected stories, chronicle of a death foretold, the general in his labyrinth, innocent eréndira and other stories, in the evil hour, leaf storm, love in the time of cholera, memories of my melancholy whores, news of a kidnapping, no-one writes to the colonel, of love and other demons, the story of a shipwrecked sailor and strange pilgrims