Pagine1927–2014 · Aracataca, Colombia · also known as García Márquez, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel García Márquez, known as Gabo, grew up with his grandparents in the Colombian town of Aracataca, listening to his grandmother tell impossible things in a perfectly calm voice. That voice became magical realism. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), seven generations of the Buendía family in the town of Macondo, sold tens of millions of copies; Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) followed. A journalist all his life, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
Start with Chronicle of a Death Foretold or No One Writes to the Colonel (both short), then One Hundred Years of Solitude — keep a family tree handy — and Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Gabriel García Márquez, known as Gabo, grew up with his grandparents in the Colombian town of Aracataca, listening to his grandmother tell impossible things in a perfectly calm voice. That voice became magical realism.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is usually considered Gabriel García Márquez’s best-known work, followed by Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, No One Writes to the Colonel.
Start with Chronicle of a Death Foretold or No One Writes to the Colonel (both short), then One Hundred Years of Solitude — keep a family tree handy — and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Both refer to the same writer. Other spellings and names include García Márquez, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Gabriel García Márquez’s books are still under copyright, so they are not free to download, but many can be borrowed free from your public library or Open Library — we link to them below.