Living to Tell the Tale

The Nobel laureate's memoir of his first thirty years, from his childhood in Aracataca, Colombia, the town that inspired Macondo, through his years as a young journalist in Barranquilla, Cartagena and Bogotá. Full of the eccentric relatives, places and stories that later fed One Hundred Years of Solitude and his other novels, it is a warm and vivid portrait of how García Márquez became a writer. Translated by Edith Grossman.

Vintage International trade paperback, 2004, 483 pages.

Condition: Fair to good, a reading copy. Very slight page curling from past water exposure in roughly the first hundred pages, with no odour. Cover shows light wear to the edges and corners.