Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family and the rise and fall of their mythical hometown, Macondo. ___ "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 was awarded to Gabriel García Márquez "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts". Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, LIVING TO TELL THE TALE is a work of enchantment. In this magnificent story of a romance, García Márquez beautifully and unflinchingly explores the nature of love in all its guises, small and large, passionate and serene. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Read an excerpt of this book Read a brief excerpt of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book, "Love in the Time of Cholera." MEXICO CITY (AP) — Here are some excerpts from the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on 6 March 1927, and died on 17 April 2014, aged 87 years. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed it as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he had hurried on an urgent call to attend a case that for him had lost all urgency many years before. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. How is culture integrated into this excerpt from One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Excerpt from “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~~Ice~~ They insisted that their father take them to see the overwhelming novelty of the sages of Memphis that was being advertised at the entrance of a tent that, according … Here is García Márquez’s shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Answer: After reading the excerpt presented above I concluded that out of all the options that are available the one that represents how culture is integrated into it is by describing a lifestyle. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Here are some excerpts from the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Here are some excerpts from the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here are some excerpts from the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Gabriel García Márquez; One Hundred Years of Solitude (Excerpt: Meme Buendía’s exile) Highlight details from the text that signal to the reader that the author is … Love can emerge like a disease in these characters, but it can also outlast bleak decades of war and cholera, and the effects of time itself. “To George she seemed so gorgeous, so elegantly aloof, so different from honest people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the brightness of her ridiculous red hat, why no one else’s heart was crazy with the whimsical Paddington Bear dress she wore, why everyone did not go mad over her comically-arched eyebrows, her willingness … ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ was published in 1967. Excerpt from “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~~Illusion~~ Behind her, so close to her ear that only she could hear it in the tumult, she heard his voice: “This is not the place for a crowned goddess.”