Gabriel García Márquez: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Hailed by the
as a "conjurer of literary magic," Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez is known to millions of readers worldwide as the author of
Beloved by readers of nearly all ages, he is surely the most popular literary novelist in translation—and he remains so today, a decade after the publication of his final novel.
In addition to the first-ever English translation of García Márquez’s last interview, this unprecedented volume includes his first interview, conducted while he was in the throes of writing
which reveals the young writer years before the extraordinary onslaught of success that would make him a household name around the world. Also featured is a series of unusually wide-ranging conversations with García Márquez's friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza—surely the only interview with García Márquez that includes the writer's insights into both the meaning of true love and the validity of superstitions.
also contains two interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning
reporter David Streitfeld.
A wide-ranging and revealing book,
is an essential book for lifelong fans of García Márquez—and readers who are just getting encountering the master's work for the first time.