"Back to the Seed" Author: [Colombia] Gabriel García Márquez Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company

★Go back to the seeds, return to the source of life and creation.

★ García Márquez's 40-year growth journey, 50 selected essays, published in Chinese for the first time! Go back to the seeds, trace back to the origin, return to the heart, easy to read, a complete record of Márquez's growth + a classic non-fiction work!

★News reports and anecdotes that are more exciting than fictional plots; the creative secrets and prototypes of works of the "undisputed" Nobel Prize winner in literature; humorous, profound, sarcastic and ironic social comments...

★The writing master tells the stories that are closest to life, with a perfect combination of lightness and depth, suitable for everyone to read. Open it casually and enter the world of Marquez immediately!

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What thoughts did Marquez’s “return to seeds journey” back to his hometown trigger?

Why did the death of a civilian girl named Verma, which caused an uproar in Italy, become the "scandal of the century"?

In Paris, where anything can happen, 100,000 people mysteriously disappear every year. Where do they go?

What are the disadvantages of writing books?

Marquez himself would actually say that novels are difficult to write?

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From the ever-changing situation in Latin America to the various "urban legends" in various countries, the thoughts and insights on writing, life, and reading... the style is distinctive, the subject matter is diverse, and the excitement remains the same. This is a heavyweight collection of selected essays that helps readers understand Márquez. It is also an easy-to-understand and good-looking example of non-fiction writing, a lively, interesting, and accessible master class of non-fiction writing, which reveals the growth secrets of the great "storyteller" Márquez and takes us to understand the daily life that is more exciting than fiction.

Gabriel García Márquez

Born in 1927 in the coastal town of Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia. Lived with his grandparents in childhood. Moved to Sucre with his parents in 1936. Enrolled in the National University of Bogota in 1947. Entered the newspaper industry in 1948. Started publishing literary works in the 1950s. One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Died of illness in Mexico on April 17, 2014. Back to the Seed was published in 2018.