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"Muchos anos despues, frente al peloton de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendia habria de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevo a conocer el hielo. Con estas palabras empieza esta novela ya mitica en los anales de la historia de la literatura universal, y con ellas se desencadenaba una de las aventuras literarias mas fascinantes de nuestro siglo."

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Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. After studying law and journalism at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, he became a journalist. In 1965, he left journalism, to devote himself to writing. His works included Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, The Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Clandestine in Chile, and the memoir Living to Tell the Tale. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87.

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