{"product_id":"living-to-tell-the-tale","title":"Living to Tell the Tale","description":"In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader—a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life—in this instance, his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiving to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48496451387647,"sku":"*R0105158*","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/12781493482686.jpg?v=1778267585","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/living-to-tell-the-tale","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}