The first (and long) volume of the Colombian writer's memoirs. I found it fascinating to learn how the author drew on people, episodes and the settings of his childhood and youth when writing his two great novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (bwl 41) and Love in the Time of Cholera (bwl 20). His memoirs give a vivid description how life was for the relatively poor in Colombia's tropical regions in the second half of the last century.
*Winner 1982 Nobel Prize Literature
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 58 Autumn 2010 ) |
