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Living to Tell the Tale
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Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who 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. In this memoir, he recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing, when his mother asked him to come back with her to the village of Aracataca, to the home of his grandparents and the memories of his Colombian childhood.
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Marquez Day – A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers, available in ebook for the first time.
'My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was twenty-three when his mother asked him to come with her, back to the village of Aracataca. In this 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.
Living to Tell the Tale is re-issued on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.
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Living to Tell the Tale has been described as Márquez's greatest book, offering a completely magical reading experience.
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ISBN: 9780241968772
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 March 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 346g
Pages: 496
About the Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
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