No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Marquez's writing Sunday Telegraph A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy Newsweek An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Marquez's best fiction The Times One of this century's most evocative writers Anne Tyler A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Marquez have never been better shown. Melvyn Bragg Few have written so passionately about the power of love Independent

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available as a Penguin Paperback from August 2007. He is the author of several novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.