Living to Tell the Thie spans Gabriel Garcia Marqucz's life from his birth in Colombia in 1927, through his emerging career as a writer, up to the 1950s and his proposal to the woman who would become his wife.

 Insightful, daring and beguiling in equal measure, it charts how Garcia Marqucz's astonishing early life influenced the man who, nore than any other, has been hailed as the twentieth century's greatest and most-beloved wriler.