Gabriel Garcia Márquez
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Should this lost novel have been found?
Articles on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s last novel to be published by his sons against the author’s wishes built up my anticipation and I couldn’t wait for April to arrive. Thanks to Bookworm, I got my copy the moment they had it in store and I read it twice. It didn’t impress me the first time as it was just a string of chapters describing how a promiscuous woman drove herself into the arms of different men on her annual August 16 visits to a Caribbean island.
‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’: Netflix unveils teaser of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s classic
The teaser takes the viewers into the mesmerising world created by García Márquez, featuring pivotal characters José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán. The series teaser opens with the iconic line, “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
97th Birth Anniversary of Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Remembering Gabo
García Márquez was one of those writers who knew from the outset that he was here to do nothing but write.
THE SHELF / 9 most anticipated new releases of 2024
In 'Knife', Rushdie pens in delicate detail the unforgettable events of August 12, 2022, giving out to the world his verdict on the act of violence
Gabriel García Márquez’s unseen novel will be published next year
The novel, which will span around 150 pages, tells the story of a woman named Ana Magdalena Bach, who visits a tropical island to lay flowers on her mother’s grave, and ends up having an affair.
Márquez told me people can fly sometimes
In celebration of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, born on this day, March 6, 1927.
On Gabriel García Márquez’s unpublished manuscript
She has been coming to this hotel for the last 28 years, ever since her mother died, and has chosen to stay in the exact same room as she does every year. She uses the same road from the hotel to travel to her mother’s resting place and buys flowers from the same African woman.
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Thus, we bid goodbye to Gabo and Mercedes
Gabriel Garcia Marquez once famously said, “All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
How it feels when you can’t finish reading a book
As I have grown older, my mind is calmer but it’s a void now, empty of any voice.
Should this lost novel have been found?
Articles on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s last novel to be published by his sons against the author’s wishes built up my anticipation and I couldn’t wait for April to arrive. Thanks to Bookworm, I got my copy the moment they had it in store and I read it twice. It didn’t impress me the first time as it was just a string of chapters describing how a promiscuous woman drove herself into the arms of different men on her annual August 16 visits to a Caribbean island.
‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’: Netflix unveils teaser of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s classic
The teaser takes the viewers into the mesmerising world created by García Márquez, featuring pivotal characters José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán. The series teaser opens with the iconic line, “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
Remembering Gabo
García Márquez was one of those writers who knew from the outset that he was here to do nothing but write.
9 most anticipated new releases of 2024
In 'Knife', Rushdie pens in delicate detail the unforgettable events of August 12, 2022, giving out to the world his verdict on the act of violence
Gabriel García Márquez’s unseen novel will be published next year
The novel, which will span around 150 pages, tells the story of a woman named Ana Magdalena Bach, who visits a tropical island to lay flowers on her mother’s grave, and ends up having an affair.
Márquez told me people can fly sometimes
In celebration of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, born on this day, March 6, 1927.
On Gabriel García Márquez’s unpublished manuscript
She has been coming to this hotel for the last 28 years, ever since her mother died, and has chosen to stay in the exact same room as she does every year. She uses the same road from the hotel to travel to her mother’s resting place and buys flowers from the same African woman.
Thus, we bid goodbye to Gabo and Mercedes
Gabriel Garcia Marquez once famously said, “All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
How it feels when you can’t finish reading a book
As I have grown older, my mind is calmer but it’s a void now, empty of any voice.
WORDS THAT HEAL: The comfort of literature in times of mental duress
For Mahera help came not only in the form of relatable characters, but also the physical comfort derived from holding onto a book. "I've carried a book or a Kindle with me during the worst times of my life. It's like a security blanket," she told me.
