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In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez's life from his... Read Full Overview

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One of the most acclaimed and revered Nobel laureates begins to tell us the story of his life.

Living to Tell the Tale spans Gabriel Garc a M rquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when... Read Full Overview

At first glance, Garcia Mrquez's vivid and detailed portrait of his early life appears to be testament to a photographic memory. Yet as he explains in the epigraph, "Life isn't what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it to tell it."

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The first book in a planned trilogy in which Marquez will tell the story of his own life, beginning with his birth in 1927 through to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife.