Word: marquez
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Where the Side-walk Ends by Shel Silverstein, Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand rounded out the list...
...Hundred Years of Solitude. Like Garcia Marquez, students abroad attempt to cultivate quiet spaces amidst their surroundings for contemplation. They often adopt a slower, relaxed schedule for the first time. Solitude can provide time for observing one's surroundings and contemplating existential questions, rather than incurring loneliness...
...clocks and umbrellas? To spike moribund magazine sales, it seems, nothing works better than hiring a new reporter--particularly one with an international following and a Nobel Prize. That at least has been the experience of Cambio, a Colombian newsweekly whose newsstand sales have doubled since novelist GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ bought the flagging magazine and joined its reporting staff. Undercover assignments are out of the question, but the author, who worked at a newspaper before becoming a novelist, insists on doing his own legwork and recently covered peace talks between the government and rebels. "Journalism is the only trade...
...Nattel's dreamscapes. Like most descendants of East European Jewry, Nattel has a knowledge of her ancestry only a few generations deep. Blaszka, then, is a fictional place where the Canadian author attempts to link emotionally and spiritually with her unknown forebears. Like Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County and Garcia Marquez's Macondo, Nattel's imagined backwater is shot through with mythic significance. Even the river of the novel's title surges with the metaphorical force of Mother Ganges...
...guerrilla group--the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC)--the rebels and the government of President Andres Pastrana Arango began the country's third attempt at peace in 17 years. But the fiesta of tropical bands, stuffed pig and beer, attended by luminaries like Colombia's Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, couldn't rise above the jolting absence of the FARC's mysterious 68-year-old chief, Manuel ("Sureshot") Marulanda. He had been expected to attend but instead left Pastrana forlorn at the head of the table and the peace talks in doubt. Marulanda privately told government officials he still supports...