Daniel Rey

A death foretold: the last days of Gabriel García Márquez

Rodrigo García records how aspects of his father’s fiction were strangely echoed as he lay dying at home in Mexico City

Gabriel García Márquez and his wife Mercedes on holiday in Rome in 1969 [Getty Images]
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  • A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes:A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

    Rodrigo García

    Harper Via, pp. 176, £12

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