Living to Tell the Tale

'My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house'

Gabriel García Márquez was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing, when his mother asked him to come back with her to the village of Aracataca, to the home of his grandparents and the memories of his Colombian childhood.

In this first part of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's memoir, the Nobel Prize-winning author returns to the atmosphere and influences that shaped his formidable imagination and formed the basis of his world-famous, and much-loved, fiction.