Living to tell the tale is perhaps Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece.
In this book he tells his own life story in much the same magical way he tells all his other stories. In To live to tell it Gabo describes his family and his life until his early years as a writer; his childhood in his grandfather’s house and the ghosts that inhabited it, his schooldays, his ever growing family, his first writing job. Many of the characters and instances can be recognised in later stories, making it sometimes difficult to differentiate reality from fantasy.