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‘He Was The Greatest Of Us All’: Salman Rushdie on Gabriel García Márquez

PEOPLE Posted: April 23, 2014 12:06 am

“I knew García Márquez’s colonels and generals, or at least their Indian and Pakistani counterparts; his bishops were my mullahs; his market streets were my bazaars. His world was mine, translated into Spanish. It’s little wonder I fell in love with it – not for its magic (although, as a writer reared on the fabulous ‘wonder tales’ of the East, that was appealing too) but for its realism.”

PEOPLE Published: 04.21.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 04.21.14

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