Two Kinds of Loneliness Author: [Colombia] Gabriel García Márquez / [Peru] Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company

[Gabriel García Márquez x Juan Vargas Llosa] The only conversation between two Nobel Prize winners in Literature!

★The texts that were recovered after more than half a century allow us to relive the initial splendor and the final frame of the "literary explosion".

★An unprecedented and unparalleled dialogue, a shocking collision between rationality and humor, fiction and life, a literary tip sheet to enlighten readers.

★Also includes interviews with the two writers, photo collections and other valuable materials.

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★The insights into novels in this book are certainly more than what you will learn in any liberal arts department.

These words may seem like the survivors of a shipwreck, but I am sure they can enlighten and inspire a reader—and perhaps a future novelist. —Juan Gabriel Vázquez (contemporary Colombian writer)

★That conversation connected life and literature, theory and practice, fantasy and reality, and introduced a lot of knowledge about novels and novelists. The narrative magic of García Márquez and Vargas Llosa permeated the entire conversation, and no one noticed the passage of time. - Abelardo Ogondo (Peruvian literary critic)

★More than half a century later, after so much literary water has flowed under the bridge, this book brings the most important key information. ——El País, Spain

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In 1967, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was published with unprecedented fanfare. Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez were still young novelists. They held an extremely weird conversation in Lima, like two young pterosaurs asking each other "What the hell is evolution?" - this became the only conversation between the two future literary masters in their lives.

García Márquez had been deliberately and carefully trying to make himself a legend, starting in 1968 when he wrote to Vargas Llosa refusing to publish their conversation in a book.

Nevertheless, the Conversations were released in small quantities, and since then it has become García Márquez's most pirated, photocopied, and underground work.

Now, half a century has passed, and we finally encounter the writings of these shipwreck survivors, returning to that exciting era and reliving the initial splendor and final frame of the "literary boom".