GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
Believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian-born author and journalist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and a pioneer of the Latin American “Boom.” Affectionately known as “Gabo” to millions of readers, he first won international fame with his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, a defining classic of twentieth century literature.
Whether writing short stories, epic novels,
or nonfiction, Gabo is above all a brilliant storyteller, and his writing is a
tribute to both the power of the imagination and the mysteries of the human
heart. In Gabo’s world, where flowers rain from the sky and dictators sell the
very ocean, reality is subject to emotional truths as well as physical
boundaries. It is a world of great beauty and great cruelty; a world where love
brings both redemption and enslavement; and a world where the lines between
objective reality and dreams are hopelessly blurred. It is a world very much
like our own.
"From the sky they could see, just as God saw them, the ruins of the very old and heroic city of Cartagena de Indias, the most beautiful in the world, abandoned by its inhabitants because of the sieges of the English and the atrocities of the buccaneers. They saw the walls, still intact, the brambles in the streets, the fortifications devoured by heartsease, the marble palaces and the golden altars and the viceroys rotting with plague inside their armor" .- From "Love In The Time Of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Translated by Edith Grossman.
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