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On this day in 1928 Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born. Marquez has recently published Part One of his projected three-volume memoirs, "Living to Tell the Tale" (Knopf, 2003, trans. by Edith Grossman). This tells his first twenty-seven years in such a detailed, vivid and captivating way -- the writer was first a reporter, though in a Caribbean world where "reality resembles the wildest imagination" -- that we can only hope, given his lymphatic cancer, Marquez is able to tell the whole tale. ... FULL STORY »
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