This entry talks about my first encounter with a Nobel Prize winner. And he died last Tuesday, a day before I finished his novel, Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel Garcia Marques, passed away at the age of 87 at his home in Mexico. He is called the Magus of magical realism. Marquez used his fecund imagination and exuberant sleight of hand to conjure the miraculous in his fiction. I had quite a trouble while reading his novel because some words and phrases were very new and strange to me. However, he somehow succeeded in encouraging me that love can truly be forever.
Hopefully this year, I may be able to read his "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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