Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gerald Martin

RRP: £25.00

Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING

Publication Date : 20/10/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

The first comprehensive biography of the author, whose books include "Love In The Time Of Cholera" and "One Hundred Years Of Solitude", and who is the most popular international novelist of the last 50 years. Based on 15 years of research, and interviews with over 300 people, including several presidents of Columbia, writers, his family, translators, friends and enemies. 16 pages of photos.

Publisher's description:

Describes the tension in the author's life between celebrity and literary quality, between politics and writing; and between power, solitude and love; and the contrast between his Caribbean background and the gloomier authoritarianism of highland Bogota.

ISBN: 9780747594765