In the book Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez - winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house where he grew up and the memories this visit awakened. 'My mother asked me to come with her to sell the house.' Gabriel García Márquez was twenty-three years old, a young man experimenting with writing when his mother asked him to return with her to his grandparents' village and the memories of his Colombian childhood. In the first part of his memoirs, the Nobel Prize-winning author returns to the atmosphere and influences that shaped his unique imagination and formed the basis of his famous and beloved literature. 'A treasure, a discovery of a lost land we knew existed but could not find. An enthralling book wonder' - The Times. 'A wonderful journey. Never less than a miracle' - Sunday Times. 'Márquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else can' - Salman Rushdie.