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| Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin | Book Review Nobel laureate, global bestseller, magical realist and friend of Castro: which is the real Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez? "Whatever you write," he told Gerald Martin, his biographer, "that is what I will be." Martin's landmark biography, 17 years in the writing, explains at length what GarcÃa Márquez has meant by insisting that, despite its frequently magical content, his fiction is rooted firmly in real life. That real life, of course, is only as magical as the stories we tell about it, and if Martin has worked hard to separate history from myth- making, he also acknowledges the ways in which they overlap. One of the several family trees reproduced here is that of the BuendÃas, the fictional dynasty of One Hundred Years of Solitude.Gabriel García Márquezguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds feeds.guardian.co.uk |
Kipper Williams: Borders ought to reopen as a bookshop Fears for survival of Borders as it suspends website orders feeds.guardian.co.uk |
Books of The Times: Bookish Cowboy Heads Off to the Corral Larry McMurtry’s second memoir is slack and distracted — but also exactly the kind of slipshod book I enjoy more than many good books. feeds.nytimes.com |
The Memory Thief In Anne Tyler’s 18th novel, a retired teacher, attacked in his new home, becomes fixated on recovering the contents of a few hours of lost memory. feeds.nytimes.com |
The City & the City by China Miéville | Book review China Miéville is partial to a fabricated city setting, and he has outdone himself here by constructing two adjoining Eastern European city-states, Beszel and Ul Qoma, and their complex political and linguistic systems. Against this impressively realised backdrop is set a noirish thriller in which Inspector Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad struggles to discover how a student from Ul Qoma came to be murdered and dumped in a skate park at the edge of disintegrating Beszel. The deeper his investigation takes him into the tortuous relationship between the two cities, the greater danger Borlú is in – but as the story hurtles towards its overly complicated climax, the characters become rather lost amid the political invention.FictionHelen Zaltzmanguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds feeds.guardian.co.uk |