Gabriel Garca Mrquez The Early Years [Hardcover]

This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of Garc?a M?rquez's life up to the publication of his classic100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language. As Garc?a M?rquez's impact endures on well into his ninth decade, Stavans's keen insights constitute the definitive re-appraisal of the literary giant's life and corpus. The later part of his life will be covered in a second book.

Ilan Stavansis the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. His books includeThe Hispanic Condition,On Borrowed Words,Spanglish,Dictionary Days,The Disappearance, andA Critic's Journey. He has edited the three-volume setIsaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories,ThePoetry of Pablo Neruda, and, most recently, the anthologyBecoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile's Presidential Medal, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans's work, translated into a dozen languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen, including the movieMy Mexican Shivah. He also hosted the syndicated PBS television show Conversations with Ilan Stavans.

An engaging, informative study tracking the small beginnings of a literary giant and his magnum opus...Stavans enlightens us, not just about one literary figure, but about the culture and history of a whole hemisphere... Stavans is a magical writer himself. Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, and Once Upon A Quincea?era: Coming of Age in the USA

Stavan's style is clear and accessiblelC#