Living to Tell the Tale: An Autobiography

Title: Living to Tell the Tale: An Autobiography
Author: García Márquez, Gabriel; Grossman, Edith
ISBN: 9781400034543
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher Description:

No writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel García Márquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction.

Here is García Márquez's shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale is a work of enchantment.