Social protest and poetry; reality and myth; nostalgia for an uncorrupted, golden past; sensual human enjoyment of the present; 'magic' rather than lineal time, and, above all, a tender, compassionate love for the living, fertile, wondrous land and the st
A comprehensive biography of the author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' - the most popular international novelist of the last 50 years.