A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
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Thank you Harper Via Books and Bibliolifestyle for this gifted book.
I love a good memoir, so I was excited to receive this book. I love getting the behind the scenes of someoneโs life and how eye opening it can be.
The son of one of the greatest writers of our timeโNobel Prize winner and icon Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquezโremembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.
In March 2014, Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, came down with a cold. The woman who had been beside him for more than fifty years, his wife Mercedes Barcha, was not hopeful; her husband, affectionately known as โGabo,โ was then nearly 87 and battling dementia. I don't think we'll get out of this one, she told their son Rodrigo.
Hearing his motherโs words, Rodrigo wondered, โIs this how the end begins?โ To make sense of events as they unfolded, he began to write the story of Garcรญa Mรกrquezโs final days. The result is this intimate and honest account that not only contemplates his fatherโs mortality but reveals his remarkable humanity.
Both an illuminating memoir and a heartbreaking work of reportage, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes transforms this towering genius from literary creator to protagonist, and paints a rich and revelatory portrait of a family coping with loss. At its center is a man at his most vulnerable, whose wry humor shines even as his lucidity wanes. Gabo savors affection and attention from those in his orbit, but wrestles with what he will loseโand what is already lost. Throughout his final journey is the charismatic Mercedes, his constant companion and the creative muse who was one of the foremost influences on Gaboโs life and his art.
Bittersweet and insightful, surprising and powerful, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes celebrates the formidable legacy of Rodrigoโs parents, offering an unprecedented look at the private family life of a literary giant. It is at once a gift to Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquezโs readers worldwide, and a grand tribute from a writer who knew him well.
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