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Prize-winning journalist SILVANA PATERNOSTRO grew up in Barranquilla, Colombia, home to Garcia Marquez's fabled literary group, La Cueva. In 1999, she was selected by Time/CNN as one of ""Fifty Latin American Leaders for the Millennium,"" and is the author of In the Land of God and Man, nominated for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and My Colombian War. A frequent contributor to English and Spanish publications including the New York Times, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Vogue, andEl Malpensante and Gatopardo,she lives between New York City and Colombia. Translator EDITH GROSSMAN is one of the most renowned Spanish-to-English translators of our time. In addition to translating seven of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novels, including Love in the Time of Cholera and Memories of My Melancholy Whores, she has translated works by Miguel de Cervantes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Ariel Dorfman, to name a few. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN Ralph Manheim Medal, an Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and many other awards and honors. She teaches at Columbia University in New York City.
Gabriel Garc a M rquez was one of the greatest conversationalists the world has ever produced, and to draw his life in the words of others is nothing short of audacious. But here it is: Paternostro gives us a extraordinary portrait of Gabo, rich in sheer information but also in the best kind of literary gossip. Solitude & Company is outstanding as a work of journalism and a pleasure to read. This is as close as you'll ever get to spending a day with the master himself. --Juan Gabriel V squez, author of The Sound of Things Falling Solitude & Company captures Gabo--the man, the times and the places that created him. How a man from the Caribbean made a universe that the world embraced. Everyone who loves Gabriel Garc a M rquez's work will enjoy this wonderful book. --Benicio Del Toro If I may be allowed to mix up a metaphor: This is a kaleidoscopic cocktail of voices--vibrant, eloquent, intoxicating--inspired by that endlessly fascinating literary magician Gabriel Garc a M rquez (a.k.a. Gabo/Gabito/etc.). And the cocktail has been mixed and shaken, expertly and knowingly, by Silvana Paternostro. Salud! --Gerald Martin, author of Gabriel Garc a M rquez: A Life It would be difficult to imagine a writer and editor more qualified to assemble this oral history of Garcia Marquez than Silvana Paternostro. Coming from the world and culture that spawned magical realism, she studied under and has continued to study the master of the genre; yet she has lived in America long enough to have a firm command of its cultural nuances, as well. Add to that her own gifts as an analyst and storyteller, and you have a volume that is both deeply insightful and a fitting testimonial--in short, an absolute gift. --Caleb Carr is the author of The Alienist and The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians. Solitude & Company is a human, fresh, and irreverent portrait of Gabriel Garc a M rquez in which the voices of his friends, his loved ones, and even his detractors, who had never shared their stories, are interwoven. --Educac on y Cultura AZ This magnificent research brings an unprecedented, different, and revealing perspective. --Huffington Post A magnificent oral biography of Gabriel Garc a M rquez. . . . A work made up of endless interviews and conversations with friends, acquaintances, detractors, and even enemies. From statements by Carmen Balcells herself, and including the brothers and sisters of Garc a M rquez, the Arataca neighbors and the comrades in the jungle of Barranquilla, they all enable Silvana Paternostro to build a polyhedral and complex, plural and contradictory image of a fundamental figure of the century. --Culturamas
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