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A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes - A Son's Memoir of Gabriel Garc a Marquez and Mercedes Barcha (Hardcover)
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A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes - A Son's Memoir of Gabriel Garc a Marquez and Mercedes Barcha (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R289
Discovery Miles 2 890
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The son of one of the greatest writers of our time-Nobel Prize
winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel Garcia
Marquez-remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender
memoir about love and loss. 'It enthralled and moved me.' Salman
Rushdie In March 2014, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 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.
Hearing his mother's words, Rodrigo wondered, "Is this how the end
begins?" To make sense of events as they unfolded, he began to
write the story of Garcia Marquez's final days. The result is this
intimate and honest account that not only contemplates his father's
mortality but reveals his remarkable humanity. Both an illuminating
memoir and a heartbreaking work of reportage, A Farewell to Gabo
and Mercedes transforms this towering genius from literary creator
to protagonist, and paints a rich and revelatory portrait of a
family coping with loss. At its centre is a man at his most
vulnerable, whose wry humour shines even as his lucidity wanes.
Gabo savours affection and attention from those in his orbit, but
wrestles with what he will lose-and what is already lost.
Throughout his final journey is the charismatic Mercedes, his
constant companion and the creative muse who was one of the
foremost influences on Gabo's life and his art. Bittersweet and
insightful, surprising and powerful, A Farewell to Gabo and
Mercedes celebrates the formidable legacy of Rodrigo's parents,
offering an unprecedented look at the private family life of a
literary giant. It is at once a gift to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's
readers worldwide, and a grand tribute from a writer who knew him
well.
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