{"product_id":"living-to-tell-the-tale","title":"Living to Tell the Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLiving to Tell the Tale\u003c\/i\u003e Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003e'My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nGabriel Garcia Marquez was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents and the memories of his Colombian childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIn the 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.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'A treasure trove, a discovery of a lost land we knew existed but couldn't find. A thrilling miracle of a book' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'A marvellous journey. Never less than a miracle' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else can do' Salman Rushdie\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Gabriel Garcia Marquez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43507542458546,"sku":"9780241968772","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/9381_60dd1c9e5e7ea6.37863722_9780241968772.jpg?v=1702031052","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/living-to-tell-the-tale","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}