![]() ![]() His grandparents were cousins who moved to Aracataca from Riohacha at the end of the War of a Thousand Days (1899-1902), a few years before a leafstorm. Marquez grew up with his maternal grandparents in Aracataca, Colombia. It would not have been written if he had not experienced the childhood he had. ![]() ![]() The truth in the tale is that One Hundred Years of Solitude is a very personal book for the author. Like everything Marquez writes, there is some truth and much fiction in this tale. They traded papers, and she put the manuscript in the mail to his publisher. Fifteen months later, he emerged with the manuscript, only to meet his wife holding a stack of bills. One day, while he and his wife and children were in their car driving to Acapulco, he saw that he "had to tell story the way his grandmother used to tell hers, and that was to start from that afternoon in which a father took his child to discover ice." He made an abrupt U-turn on the highway, the car never made it to Acapulco, and he locked himself in his study. He claims that he wrote the book barricaded in his study in Mexico, after receiving a vision. There is a legend Gabriel Garcia Marquez likes to tell about the writing of his most famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. ![]()
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