Living to Tell The Tale

Márquez Day: A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first time

'My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house'

Gabriel García Márquez was twenty-three when his mother asked him to come with her, back to the village of Aracataca. In this first part of Gabriel García Márquez's memoir, the Nobel prize-winning author returns to the atmosphere and influences that that shaped his formidable imagination and formed the basis of his world-famous, and much-loved, fiction.