'Everything that I have said in my work happened before I was eight years old: the basis of my book is that world. This is what gives my work that special feeling that the critics consider magic. I really think it was magic. With all its extraordinary and supernatural things, that fantastic world was the real world for me.'
In Growing Up in the Macondo, shown first in Writers and Places, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes the world he grew up in, particularly the town of Aracataca, near Colombia's Caribbean coast, the basis for Macondo in his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. Narrated by JULIAN GLOVER with readings by ROBERT POWELL
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