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"...An intensely personal reflection on [Garcia's] father's legacy and his family bonds, tender in its treatment and stirring in its brevity." -- BOOKLIST (starred review) The son of one of the greatest writers of our time - Nobel Prize winner and internationally bestselling icon Gabriel Garca Mrquez - remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.In March 2014, Gabriel Garca Mrquez, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, came down with a cold. The woman who had been beside him for more than fifty years, his wife Mercedes Barcha, was not hopeful; her husband, affectionately known as "Gabo," was then nearly 87 and battling dementia. I don't think we'll get out of this one, she told their son Rodrigo.



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