Volume 51, Number 1 · January 15, 2004
You Can Go Home Again
By Alastair Reid
Living to Tell the Tale
by Gabriel García Márquez,translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Knopf, 484 pp., $26.95
Last year, at the age of seventy-five, Gabriel García Márquez published in Barcelona Vivir para contarla; now it is brought into English as Living to Tell the Tale, in a beautiful translation by Edith Grossman, the first of three projected volumes of memoir. It was thirty-five years earlier, in early June 1967, that Editorial Sudamericana launched a novel by the then unknown Colombian writer, called Cien Años de Soledad. They were sufficiently impressed by the novel to risk a first printing of eight thousand copies. A week or so later, they were reprinting, and I imagine they are still.
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