Living to Tell the Tale

Synopsis

In living to tell the tale gabriel garcia marquez - winner of the 1982 nobel prize for literature and author of one hundred years of solitude - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. 'my mother asked me to go with her to sell the house'gabriel garcia marquez was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents and the memories of his colombian childhood.