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Irreverent and hopeful, Solitude & Company recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. This is the story of how he did it, how little Gabito became Gabriel Garca Mrquez, and of how Gabriel Garca Mrquez survived his own self-creation. The book is divided into two parts. In the first, "BC," before Cien aos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) , his siblings speak, along with those who were friends before Garca Mrquez became the universally loved Latin American icon - those who knew him when he still didn't have a proper English tailor or an English biographer and didn't accompany presidents, the drinking buddies and penniless fellow students. The second part, "AC," describes the man behind the legend that Garca Mrquez became.