“Gustavo Arango has written a remarkable work on Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one that combines biography and literary exposition, but transcends those boundaries, resulting in an insightful and beautifully written account of one of the greatest authors of this past century. Not only does he explicate and add meaning to Marquez’s best known books, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, he effectively makes the case that some of Marquez’s lesser known (at least in the Anglo-American world) are also remarkable works worthy of greater scrutiny. While Marquez’s work is most frequently associated with Magic Realism, Arango’s study reveals many other important aspects of Marquez’s work—as Marquez himself writes “My whole life and all my work have been trying to answer the question ‘What is loneliness?’”