"Living to Tell the Tale" by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Gabriel García Márquez

Martin_law: He leído otros libros en inglés, pero en este caso se me ha hecho algo pesado y largo.
Quizás puede ser por el idioma, pero con otros libros como digo no me ha pasado.

Spain on Aug 16, 2022

Debashis Das: There is no need to comment on the themetic quality of the book. It has been touted as the most influential memior ever written . Highly elegant , erudite , emotional and touching. Garcia has recollected his past in his own style mixing reality with magic. But I have a lot to say about the quality of the booking , especially it's binding has disappointed me greatly . Alfred Knopf has reputation of high quality publishing of international standard. But the copy seller sent to me is in right shape.The front part has not properly been cut . Never before the Amazon has sent me a trash !

India on Jan 04, 2022

Anmol Khurana: I like this book.

India on Jun 07, 2021

mireille: As with all Marquez books, this one does not disappoint. This famous writer sets out in great detail his early experiences and those in particular that contributed to his desire to create works of fiction. What he writes of his life resonates with his fictional subjects and subject matter. If you are a GGM fan, this is unmissable.

United Kingdom on Dec 02, 2020

Janet Edwards: No one writes like him and no one could tell his story better. The times he grew to manhood come alive and the history of his country does too. I anticipated this book so very much because I love the rhythm of his writing, the words he uses, I like it all. Some of the stories you've perhaps heard before because his books are so much about his life, but now you will know from where the tale came.

United States on Nov 16, 2020

Amazon Customer: The best thing about this book is discovering the story behind the stories in his other work. Stories involving his family, specially his mother, are the most interesting, but you will learn about his siblings and papa also. Chapters about his student days are also interesting but his life as a reporter and editorial writer lack the intimate details much of the time. He moves back and forth between Bogata and several other Colombian towns and is sometimes confusing. The ongoing civil wars make up much of the background. My feeling is that the biography of Marquez by another author will provide a more organized account of his life. He says very little about his future wife and it is not explained when they married. The story ends somewhat abruptly when he leaves Columbia for Switzerland.

United States on Oct 08, 2017

Brian: Of all his books this is my favourite. The tragedy is that this is the first of what was to be an autobiographical trilogy and as far as I can see he never got to write volumes 2 and 3. If you are a fan read it and if you are not read it anyway.

United Kingdom on Jan 07, 2016

Randy Keehn: "Living to tell the Tale" is an autobiography of the first 25-30 years of the life of the Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I was impressed just several pages into the book with the realization that this is not like any other autobiography (or regular biography) that I have read. This is a gifted author trying in words to make sense out of his life. That's not to imply that the author is finding out who he is right along with the rest of us. Rather, it is the author reliving those years with the ability to diagram the important events of his life no matter how meaningless they may have seemed at the time. One of the aspects that makes this book so impressive is that the author has led, from the beginning, a very interesting life. He was born into a poverty that had just enough of an income to give him the educational opportunities to discover his talents. Easily distracted by the here and now, Garcia Marquez had many chances to go irretrievibly astry. Yet these chances also introduced him to many people and places that would be the subjects of his writings. Clearly though, the most influencial people were his family; especially his mother and grandfather. Along...

United States on Jul 26, 2004

Foster Corbin: One advantage of writing an autobiography is that you obviously control what the reader finds out about you. I suspect that Mr. Marquez omits many things about himself in this wonderful, rambling memoir of nearly 500 pages; but he gives us story after story on practically every page; and we do get a myriad of fascinating details about both the man, his family and friends and his thoughts on writers and writing. Marquez comes from a large Colombian family, both in and outside marriage, and says that he owes his nature and "way of thinking" to the women in his family who had "strong characters and tender hearts." His mother obviously fits this description. Although intensely jealous of her husband's infidelities, she brings home one of her husband's children born outside their marriage because "'the same blood that's in my children's veins just can't go wandering around out there.'" In addition to Marguez's parents, whom we recognize in LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, there are countless other fascinating people and stories seen and told through the eyes of this great writer. Who else, for example, would know a blind accordian repairman? Or whose family would dig up the remains of...

United States on Mar 28, 2004