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A death foretold: the last days of Gabriel García Márquez

31 July 2021

9:00 AM

31 July 2021

9:00 AM

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes:A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha Rodrigo García

Harper Via, pp.176, 12.99

In March 2014 Gabriel García Márquez went down with a cold. The man who wrote beautifully about ageing was approaching his end. As his wife told their son Rodrigo: ‘I don’t think we’ll get out of this one.’

In A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes, García, a film director and screenwriter, remembers his father and mother — one of the world’s greatest novelists and his muse.

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