Description
About the Author
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.
Reviews
No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Marquez's writing * Sunday Telegraph *
It's the most magical book I have ever read... I think [Marquez] has influenced the world * Caroline Herrera *
The book that sort of saved my life * Emma Thompson *
It's so much fun to read, unexpected and beautiful * Darryl Hannah *
The greatest novel in any language of the last 50 years * Salman Rushdie *
Should be required reading for the entire human race * New York Times *
No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Marquez's writing * Sunday Telegraph *
It's the most magical book I have ever read... I think [Marquez] has influenced the world * Caroline Herrera *
The book that sort of saved my life * Emma Thompson *
It's so much fun to read, unexpected and beautiful * Darryl Hannah *
The greatest novel in any language of the last 50 years * Salman Rushdie *
Should be required reading for the entire human race * New York Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9780141032436
Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 286g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 26mm