About the Author

Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Cholera, The Autumn Of The Patriarch, The General In His Labyrinth, and News Of A Kidnapping. He died in 2014.


This book is translated by Edith Grossman, widely recognized as the preeminent Spanish to English translator of our time.

Reviews

“A brilliantly moving tour de force.” —A.S. Byatt, The New York Times Book Review“A work of considerable beguilement and edge. . . . García Márquez retains a vital and remarkable voice, and the pen of an angel.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Captivating. . . . Evokes the texture of a civilization, while its emotional range, from the comic to the mystical, exhibits a reach rarely found in fictions on a larger scale.” —The Boston Globe“Luminous. . . . Demonstrates that one of the masters of the form is still working at the height of his powers.” —The New York Times

In this new novel, already available here in Spanish (see review in "En Español," p. 77), a priest becomes passionately attached to a girl dying of rabies.

"A brilliantly moving tour de force." -A.S. Byatt, The New York Times Book Review"A work of considerable beguilement and edge. . . . Garcia Marquez retains a vital and remarkable voice, and the pen of an angel." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "Captivating. . . . Evokes the texture of a civilization, while its emotional range, from the comic to the mystical, exhibits a reach rarely found in fictions on a larger scale." -The Boston Globe"Luminous. . . . Demonstrates that one of the masters of the form is still working at the height of his powers." -The New York Times