Chapters: Robertson Davies, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Isaac Bashevis Singer, José Saramago, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Magic realism, Isabel Allende, Joanne Harris, Janet Frame, Gustav Meyrink, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Haruki Murakami, Alejo Carpentier, Mário de Andrade, Kenzaburō Ōe, Jonathan Safran Foer, Günter Grass, Yasunari Kawabata, Carlos Fuentes, Daniil Kharms, Juan Rulfo, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Kōbō Abe, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Mark Helprin, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernières, Shūji Terayama, Patrick Süskind, Amanda Filipacchi, Laura Esquivel, Victor Pelevin, Kelly Link, Nancy Springer, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Ben Okri, Daniel Kehlmann, Onat Kutlar, Franz Roh, Sara Gallardo, Robert Poulet, Carlos Thorne Boas, Kenji Nakagami, José Donoso, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Hubert Lampo, Keith Donohue, Han Shaogong, Michal Ajvaz, Rae Bryant, Ikezawa Natsuki, Francisco Méndez, R. M. Koster, Eden Robinson, David J. Schwartz,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 122. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gabriel José de la Concordia "Gabo" García Márquez (Spanish pronunciation: ; born March 6, 1927) is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as Gabo throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his ...http://booksllc.net/?id=12445