- Published: 3 November 2020
- ISBN: 9780241444184
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $22.99
The Scandal of the Century
and Other Writings
- Published: 3 November 2020
- ISBN: 9780241444184
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $22.99
The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start. . . . He's among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding. . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe.
The New York Times
García Márquez always thought of himself as a journalist first and foremost and this brilliant collection goes a long way towards justifying that belief. Or, at least, it puts his journalism on the same level as his fiction, which is quite some level.
Salman Rushdie
In his journalism, García Márquez's prose was as precise, euphonious and inventive as it was in his fiction. Only a magician of a translator like Anne McLean could get it right. For anyone who has been enthralled by One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Scandal of the Century is an essential book.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling