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Collected here for the first time: a selection of the great writer's journalism, which he considered more important to his legacy than his acclaimed novels. Late in his life, Gabriel García Márquez declared: “I don’t want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude, nor for the Nobel Prize, but rather for the newspaper. I was born a journalist. . . . It’s in my blood.”  Now available for the first time in English, this selection offers a glimpse into the great novelist’s career as a reporter. Ranging from the early pieces he wrote while starting out in Colombia to his longer reportage from Paris and Rome and, later on, from Venezuela and Mexico, these fifty journalistic writings amply display the narrative gifts that made his reputation. The Scandal of the Century is a tribute to García Márquez’s dedication to the profession he believed to be “the best in the world.”

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Unpretentious and witty meditations on topics like barbers and air travel and literary translation and movies. . . . Demonstrate[s] that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start. . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe. --The New York Times Garcia Marquez always thought of himself as a journalist first and foremost and this brilliant collection goes a long way towards justifying that belief. Or, at least, it puts his journalism on the same level as his fiction, which is quite some level. --Salman Rushdie 'The good news, hardly surprising, is that this collection is a Master Class on how to write for a newspaper: lush, vivid columns full of information, irony, whimsy, humor, skepticism and rumination, just what one would expect from Marquez. The bad news is that he checked out so early, and that his genius is not around to tell us what we need to know about Donald Trump. --Seymour M. Hersh Gabriel Garcia Marquez' fiction would not exist without his journalism, just as without his fiction his journalism would not exist: they nourished each other. Some of Garcia Marquez's journalistic pieces are every bit as good as his fiction at its best. --Javier Cercas, author of Soldiers of Salamine In his journalism, Garcia Marquez's prose was as precise, euphonious and inventive as it was in his fiction. Only a magician of a translator like Anne McLean could get it right. For anyone who has been enthralled by One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Scandal of the Century is an essential book. --Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling This book brings us Garcia Marquez the muckraker, well grounded in reality. In a time of fake news , this is an indispensable book to understand what a real reporter is. --Jorge Ramos, author of Stranger

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Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died in 2014.

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