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 childhoodin the first part of gabriel garcia marquezs 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, fictiona treasure trove, a discovery of a lost land we knew existed but couldnt find a thrilling miracle of a book the timesa marvellous journey never less than a miracle sunday timesmárquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else c