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“... Roa Bastos himself, Argentina’s Julio Cortazar, Venezuela’s Miguel Otero Silva, Colombia’s Gabriel García Marquez, Cuba’s Alejo Carpentier, the Dominican Republic’s Juan Bosch and Chile’s José Donoso and Jorge Edwards (one of them promised to take on a Bolivian dictator). When the project fell through, three of these authors went on to ...”

“... A coda. Is this Torrijos the same genial populist who was hymned and wreathed by Graham Greene and Gabriel Garcia Marquez? The plucky patriot who stood up for his people and his Canal? Yes, it is the torturer and traitor and bribe-taker himself. Nothing better illustrates the decay of ideology than the non-fiction composed for the General by these two fabulist ...”

“... a world novel in every sense to rank alongside the best of Coetzee, Salman Rushdie ... and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’. Does Malouf deserve such backers – and perhaps the Booker as well? Maybe he does; maybe they all deserve one another. Here are his final paragraphs: Out beyond the flatlands the line of light pulses and swells. The sea, in sight ...”

“... realism. The old man’s poignant flashback in the face of death has become a classic, but then, Gabriel GarcíaMárquez spent 17 years preparing for this sentence. One Hundred Years of Solitude went on to launch not only the concept but a thousand whimsical imitations, such as Isabel Allende’s The House of the ...”

“... view over the Aburra valley.’ Escobar is the best known modern Colombian. He would outscore even Gabriel GarcíaMárquez and the bubble-permed soccer legend Valderama in focus-group samplings. After 499 days at large, he was run to ground in 1993 by a force of 1500 men, and whacked. But Colombia is still haunted by ...”

“... of the few exceptions in that his name appeared regularly among the magazine’s contributors, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, have spoken appreciatively of the journal’s importance for themselves and their friends. As regards Sur’s role in the Argentine, I am puzzled by what is undoubtedly the most glaring omission in King’s book: his analysis of the ...”

“... about Prague in 1968, or a Colombian write about La Violencia. That’s what Milan Kundera and Gabriel GarcíaMárquez are there for. No it isn’t. The experiences of Kundera and Márquez in their own countries, their Czechness and Colombianness, give their work something ...”

“... if you can, the tone of normality: ‘I knew the bar well.’ The modern master of this tone is Gabriel GarcíaMárquez, although he says he got it from Kafka, and The People’s Act of Love opens with a discreet tribute, an elegantly modified memory of the beginning of One Hundred Years of Solitude (‘Many years ...”

“... first International Man Booker Prize for career achievement, alongside Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Gabriel GarcíaMárquez, Margaret Atwood et al. Consequently, it is sometimes seen as surprising that she is so little read in Britain. Her formidable essays have been published and admired here; but, of her nine works of ...”

“... stars out of Mel Gibson and Bruce Willis. Although it is tempting to align de Bernières with Gabriel GarcíaMárquez, whose work was also becoming popular with British readers at this period, his strongest influence is Norman Douglas’s South Wind. This novel, which came out in 1917, held its place as a book ...”

“... world Bolaño has already met with the kind of success that among Latin American writers only Gabriel GarcíaMárquez has achieved, an ironic victory given Bolaño’s endless attacks on what he regarded as a mere mainstream of literature. The distinctive signature of his work should assure his ghost that he need ...”

“... up on the idea of an oral history of Cuban life under communism. In 1975 he asked his close friend Gabriel GarcíaMárquez, who was enamoured of the revolution, to write it. García Márquez worked on the project for a year, then gave up. He told friends that what Cubans said ...”

“... was it only ‘jet-setting left-wing exiles’, eager to bask in the reflected glory of such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes, who took a dislike to Edwards’s book. Jorge Guzman, for instance, regards it as symptomatic of the self-importance of Chilean intellectuals at that time: ‘He judges Cuba, not for whatever Cuba is, good or bad, but ...”

“... to Gay, the noteworthy protagonists of the modern have dwindled in number. Günter Grass, Gabriel GarcíaMárquez: when they are gone, the last vestiges of the modern will be gone. But then comes the epilogue, with Gay’s trip to Bilbao, and in the embrace of Gehry’s brilliance he finds a glimmer of ...”

“... of Panama, which, after a brief interlude first under Omar Torrijos (friend of Graham Greene and Gabriel GarcíaMárquez) and then under Manuel Noriega (former friend of George Bush), is now firmly back in its control. (As John Major says in the Cambridge History, the Panama Canal has been the ‘outstanding symbol ...”