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Index
Cover
Other Books By This Author
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Maps
Foreword
Prologue - From Origins Obscure (1800–1899)
Part I - Home: Colombia: 1899–1955
Chapter 1 - Of Colonels and Lost Causes (1899–1927)
Chapter 2 - The House at Aracataca (1927–1928)
Chapter 3 - Holding His Grandfather’s Hand (1929–1937)
Chapter 4 - Schooldays: Barranquilla, Sucre, Zipaquirá (1938–1946)
Chapter 5 - The University Student and the Bogotazo (1947–1948)
Chapter 6 - Back to the Costa: An Apprentice Journalist in Cartagena (1948–1949)
Chapter 7 - Barranquilla, a Bookseller and a Bohemian Group (1950–1953)
Chapter 8 - Back to Bogotá: The Ace Reporter (1954–1955)
Part II - Abroad: Europe and Latin America: 1955–1967
Chapter 9 - The Discovery of Europe: Rome (1955)
Chapter 10 - Hungry in Paris: La Bohème (1956–1957)
Chapter 11 - Beyond the Iron Curtain: Eastern Europe During the Cold War (1957)
Chapter 12 - Venezuela and Colombia: The Birth of Big Mama (1958–1959)
Chapter 13 - The Cuban Revolution and the USA (1959–1961)
Chapter 14 - Escape to Mexico (1961–1964)
Chapter 15 - Melquíades the Magician: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1965–1966)
Chapter 16 - Fame at Last (1966–1967)
Part III - Man of the World: Celebrity and Politics: 1967–2005
Chapter 17 - Barcelona and the Latin American Boom: Between Literature and Politics (1967–1970)
Chapter 18 - The Solitary Author Slowly Writes: The Autumn of the Patriarch and the Wider World (1971–1975)
Chapter 19 - Chile and Cuba: García Márquez Opts for the Revolution (1973–1979)
Chapter 20 - Return to Literature: Chronicle of a Death Foretold and the Nobel Prize (1980–1982)
Chapter 21 - The Frenzy of Renown and the Fragrance of Guava: Love in the Time of Cholera (1982–1985)
Chapter 22 - Against Official History: García Márquez’s Bolívar (The General in His Labyrinth) (1986–1989)
Chapter 23 - Back to Macondo? News of a Historic Catastrophe (1990–1996)
Chapter 24 - García Márquez at Seventy and Beyond: Memoirs and Melancholy Whores (1996–2005)
Epilogue - Immortality—The New Cervantes (2006–2007)
Appendix - Family Trees
Notes
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Text Permissions
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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