The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Told by His Friends, Relatives, Admirers, Controversial Figures, Wit, Drunkards, and Some Decent People

A disrespectful and promising book about the life of a boy from the province who decided to become a writer. This is the story of how little Gabito became Gabriel Garcia Marquez. And how Gabriel Garcia Marquez survived in the world he invented himself.
In the first part of the book about Marquez, his brothers and sisters, as well as friends from the time when he was not yet the revered icon of Latin America, tell the tale. This section gathers voices from a little-known, but hopeful period when the boy from a remote province decided to become a writer. We are presented with a picture of the formation of a creative genius.
In the second part, after the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” has been written, we see the award-winning celebrated writer and celebrity Garcia Marquez.
“Charming and noisy... this book seems to gather around the table his old friends and gives them a voice,” writes journalist Dwight Garner in a review for The New York Times.