Word: rquez
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...source asked what books I'd read to help myself understand the region's manera de pensar, or psyche. I fidgeted and mentioned Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of Solitude. He shrugged. José Martí's Our America? Eh. How about everything by Gabriel García Márquez? (Although I had to admit that was to impress women.) He shook his head and handed me Eduardo Galeano's The Open Veins of Latin America - the same book Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez made a show of giving Barack Obama on Saturday before Obama's meeting with South...
...European-style Plaza Bolivar. Not so long ago, this was a frequent battleground between FARC guerrillas and Colombian security forces - but thanks to effective security measures, the violence has given way to new hotels, cafés and galleries, including the Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez, www.fce.com.co, a Modernist library and exhibition space named after the country's literary giant. (See pictures of the FARC guerrillas...
...Though this port city is overtly Caribbean, what draws people to it is its colonial Spanish soul, best captured perhaps in the novels of Gabriel García Márquez, its most famous resident. If you had any illusions that García Márquez's cilantro-spun stories were fictional, a few days in Cartagena will change your mind. One baby-faced cabdriver, looking as if he had just stepped off the pages of One Hundred Years of Solitude, speaks of his 18 children and 30 grandchildren, many named some iteration of José. Characters like these...
...something called their “Fantastic Library.” You could immediately recognize these “FL” books because they all had pink covers. But you know who some of the writers were in that Fantastic Library? Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Stanislaw Lem, Julio Cortázar and others. Some of the most diverse, hard to categorize writers around. But for convenience’s sake, they were all given pink covers. Booksellers in Germany told me that people came into their stores and literally turned away when they...
...talk show host said Franzen "was not even a blip on the radar screen of my life," although by 2003, she switched from picking contemporary books to classic titles, including John Steinbeck's East of Eden and Gabriel Garcí]a Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Winfrey's picks boosted sales: Penguin ordered 800,000 more copies of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina after the 19th-Century Russian novel got the nod. But much of the publishing industry was dismayed at missing the chance to hitch their latest books - and their profits - to Oprah's train...