"Literary powerhouse Gabriel García Márquez is at the height of his powers in Living to Tell the Tale, the first in a projected autobiographical trilogy. The volume ends in the 1950s, when he was in his early 30s, set to test whether he could succeed as a writer and be "one of the great ones." A Montreal Gazette reviewer wrote that readers will relish the chance to "sift the Colombian author's life for the seeds of his magic realism, and the master doesn't disappoint.""