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The Memoirs of Gabriel García Márquez - "A Classic in His Lifetime" FAZ. The first part of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs is a worldwide success. The first edition of over a million copies quickly sold out in the Spanish-speaking world. The German edition immediately topped all bestseller lists.

Living to tell the tale is a great book that not only moves and inspires but also makes you eager to read or reread the novels and stories of the Nobel laureate. "It is not what we have lived that is life, but what we remember and how we remember it in order to tell it." Following this motto of his book, Gabriel García Márquez recounts the lives of his parents, to whom he paid tribute in Love in the Time of Cholera, as well as his own childhood and youth. He shares stories of great poverty and wild love adventures, of lifelong friends and his passion for literature.