Living to Tell the Tale
- Author Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrator Christopher Salazar
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 1 June 2021
- Run Time 21 hours and 2 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: general, Ethnic studies, History of the Americas, Literature: history and criticism.
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What to expect
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 García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader—a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life—in this instance, his own.
Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.
Critics Review
“Every bit as bawdy, fantastical, and complex as the most surreal of his fictions.”
“His prose is as sumptuous and lyrical as ever.”
“Living to Tell the Tale deepens our understanding of a gentle and prodigiously gifted man.”
“A political coming-of-age story.”
“[An] always engaging, often inspired conflation of memoir and national history.”
“Invaluable in its personal and cultural history, and triumphant in its compassion and artistry, Garcia Marquez’s portrait of himself as a young writer is as revelatory and powerful as his fiction.”
“Christopher Salazar’s narration is warm and conversational. His Spanish accent is exemplary.”
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Christopher Salazar |
| Duration | 21 hours and 2 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781665039178 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Genre | Biography: general, Ethnic studies, History of the Americas, Literature: history and criticism |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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