Cryer begins by comparing Living to Tell the Tale by García Márquez to the most recent Nobel honoree, J.M Coetzee, then leads into solely Living to Tell the Tale.||"Living to Tell the Tale, the first volume of a projected autobiographical trilogy, is a self-portrait in vivid colors and bold strokes. It is as ebullient and nonjudgmental as the memoirs of the most recent Nobel honoree, J.M. Coetzee's Boyhood and Youth, are restrained and quietly furious."