Gabo doesn’t need an introduction, because every writer in the world knows and loves him. But a continental library would be incomplete without his smile and his joy.
My prefered García Márquez work has never been the world-famous Cien años de soledad, that One Hundred Years of Solitude which won him the Nobel Prize, but an earlier brief, modest story El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba, (No One Writes to the Colonel) which showed from start all his greatness and heart.
Born in Colombia, in 1927, he has been widely translated and published.
The Continental Library 