This book makes references to Gabriel García Márquez on pages 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 62, 63, 64, 65, 69, 74, 76, 85, 238, 270-275, 279-280, 305, 308, 310, 315.
The the following novels are mentioned:
"El amor en tiempos del cólera" ("Love in the Time of Cholera) 88.
"Cien años de soledad" ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") 2, 5, 15, 59, 61, 62, 63, 74, 85, 86, 94, 239, 258-267, 291, 302, 306, 308, 310.
"Crónica de una muerta anunciada" ("Chronicle of a Death Foretold") 88, 266.
"El coronel no tiene quien le escribe" ("No One Writes to the Colonel)62.
"Los funerales de la Mamá Grande" ("Big Mama's Funeral") 74.
"La hojarasca" 265.
"La mala hora" ("In Evil Hour") 62, 74.
"El Otoño del patriarca" ("The Autumn of the Patriarch") 10, 62, 265.