Prego Gadea examines a biography about Gabriel García Márquez, El viaje a la semilla, written by Dasso Saldívar and states that it is no surprise that Saldívar began the biography by narrating the trip García Márquez and his mother, Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán, made in 1952 to Aracataca with the purpose of selling the family house, the "House of Spirits," in which García Márquez was born. The biography corrects or rectifies a considerable number of anecdotes, facts, and affirmations relative to the first years of Gabriel García Márquez. Saldívar demonstrates that García Márquez didn't begin writing La hojarasca immediately after his trip to Aracataca in 1952, but rather three years later.