Living to Tell the Tale

This handsome first edition of Gabriel García Márquez's celebrated memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, is in very good condition, the dust jacket likewise very good, with boards and pages remaining entirely unmarked throughout. First edition. This is a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, 2003. Originally published in Spain as Vivir para contarla by Mondadori (Grijalbo Mondadori, S.A.), Barcelona, 2002. Translated by Edith Grossman, who over a long career translated some sixty works of Spanish-language literature and was, by García Márquez's own account, his trusted English voice; he reportedly told her directly, "You are my voice in English." Grossman received the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation. Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist and journalist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, and is the most translated Spanish-language author of the past several decades, best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. The first of a projected three-volume autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale traces García Márquez's life from his birth in 1927 through his early career as a journalist. This copy carries a personal inscription on the front free endpaper, in Spanish, signed "Hugo" and dated November 2007 — a warm note from one neighbour to another, unrelated to the author or translator. ISBN 1-4000-4134-1. Ships within Canada only.