Finalista del 2021 National Book Critics Circle 2021

La cr nica ntima de los ltimos d as de un genio.

En marzo de 2014, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, probablemente el escritor m s querido en lengua espa ola del siglo XX, ya anciano y enfermo, cay resfriado. «De esta no salimos , le dijo Mercedes Barcha, su esposa desde hac a m s de cincuenta a os, a Rodrigo, el hijo de ambos. Estas p ginas son la cr nica m s ntima y honesta de los ltimos d as de un genio, escrita con la asombrosa precisi n y la distancia justa de un testigo de excepci n: el propio Rodrigo. As vemos el lado m s humano de un personaje universal y de la mujer en la que se fij cuando era una ni a de nueve a os, que le acompa toda la vida y que apenas le sobrevivi unos a os, entreverado de recuerdos de una vida irrepetible. La m s hermosa despedida al hijo del telegrafista y su esposa.

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Finalist of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle

This is the intimate account of a great genius' last days.

In March 2014, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, probably the most beloved Spanish language writer of the 20th century, at that time elderly and ill, came down with a cold. "I don't think we'll get out of this one," Mercedes Barcha, his wife of over fifty years, told Rodrigo, their son. These pages are the most intimate and honest accounts of the last days of that genius' life. It is written with amazing meticulousness and with just the right amount of distance by an exceptional witness: Rodrigo himself.

Thus we see the most human side of a universal figure and of the woman he laid his eyes on when they were both very young, the woman who accompanied him his entire life and who barely survived him for a few years after his death, peppered with memories of a unique life. This is the most beautiful farewell to the telegrapher's son and his wife.

Gabo Y Mercedes: Una Despedida / A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes - inbunden, Spanska, 2021