The son of one of the greatest writers of our time-Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel Garc-M-uez-remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.-It enthralled and moved me.- Salman RushdieIn March 2014, Gabriel Garc-M-uez, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, came down with a cold. The woman who had been beside him for more than fifty years, his wife Mercedes Barcha, was not hopeful; her husband, affectionately known as -Gabo,- was then nearly 87 and battling dementia. I don''t think we''ll get out of this one, she told their son Rodrigo. Hearing his mother-s words, Rodrigo wondered, -Is this how the end begins?- To make sense of events as they unfolded, he began to write the story of Garc-M-uez-s final days. The result is this intimate and honest account that not only contemplates his father-s mortality but reveals his remarkable humanity. Both an illuminating memoir and a heartbreaking work of rep
