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A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
A Son's Memoir of Gabriel Garcia MArquez and Mercedes Barcha
Author: Rodrigo Garcia
Read by: Rodrigo Garcia
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02:16.23
Published: 27th July 2021
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"(Garcia) now honors his parents in this brief yet profound memoir rendered all the more intimate in Garcia's own voice."—Booklist (starred review)
"This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever entered the glorious literary world of Gabriel Garcia Marquez."—Salman Rushdie
"In A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes Rodrigo Garcia finds the words that cannot be said, the moments that signal all that is possible to know about the passage from life to death, from what love brings and the loss it leaves. With details as rich as any giant biography, you will find yourself grieving as you read, grateful for the profound art that remains a part of our cultural heritage."—Walter Mosley, New York Times bestselling author of Down the River Unto the Sea
The son of one of the greatest writers of our time—Nobel Prize winner and internationally bestselling icon Gabriel Garcia Marquez—remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.
In March 2014, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 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 "Gabo," 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 mother's words, Rodrigo wondered, "Is this how the end begins?" To make sense of events as they unfolded, he began to write the story of Garcia Marquez's final days. The result is this intimate and honest account that not only contemplates his father's 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 lose—and 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 Gabo's life and his art.
Bittersweet and insightful, surprising and powerful, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes celebrates the formidable legacy of Rodrigo's parents, offering an unprecedented look at the private family life of a literary giant. It is at once a gift to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's readers worldwide, and a grand tribute from a writer who knew him well.
"You read this short memoir with a feeling of deep gratitude. Yes, it is a moving homage by a son to his extraordinary parents, but also much more: it is a revelation of the hidden corners of a fascinating life. A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes is generous, unsentimental and wise." —Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling
"A warm homage filled with both fond and painful memories." —Kirkus
""Garcia's limpid prose gazes calmly at death, registering pain but not being overcome by it . . . the result is a moving eulogy that will captivate fans of the literary lion."" — Publishers Weekly
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ISBN: 9780063158344
ISBN-10: 0063158345
Published: 27th July 2021
Format: Digital Audiobook
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Duration: 02:16.23
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