GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
u003cpu003eNo 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. u003cbru003eu003cbru003eHere is García Márquezs 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, u003cbu003eLiving to Tell the Taleu003c/bu003eu003ciu003e u003c/iu003eis a work of enchantment.u003c/pu003e