Gabriel García Márquez The Last Interview and Other Conversations ; Edited and with an Introduction by David Streitfeld

<b>An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a giant of twentieth century literature--the only collection of interviews with Marquez available</b> <p> Hailed by the <i>New York Times</i> as a "conjurer of literary magic," Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known to millions of readers worldwide as the author of <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude. </i>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. <p> In addition to the first-ever English translation of Marquez's last interview, this unprecedented volume includes his first interview, conducted while he was in the throes of writing <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude, </i> 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 Marquez's friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza--surely the only interview with Marquez that includes the writer's insights into both the meaning of true love and the validity of superstitions. <i>Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview </i>also contains two interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>New York Times</i> reporter David Streitfeld. <p> A wide-ranging and revealing book, <i>Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview </i>is an essential book for lifelong fans of Marquez--and readers who are just getting encountering the master's work for the first time.