Contemporary Fiction

[David Casseres]

Yes, the first sentence is something I read to my daughter when she
was little, and she fully appreciated the wonder of it. (But she's 21
now, and hasn't read the novel.)

I was born in Costa Rica, and have many Colombian relatives; perhaps
that gives me an affinity with Garcia Marquez.

On 9/16/06, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was a great success even with some
> friends of mine who never did read a "big" novel before and, as I
> assume never after. But one of them seems to have even been "infected"
> by Latin America through the novel; he lives in Costa Rica now.
>
> As a fan of great opening sentences, the novel's first sentence is a
> masterpiece!
>
> Otto
>
> 2006/9/16, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com>:
> > After reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, I've eagerly read every
> > one of Garcia Marquez's novels, and been disappointed every time,
> > except for the novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold.  It's just me,
> > I guess.
> >
>