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Eza Chavez
@ezachavez · 15 Jun 2021
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Rodrigo García publishes 'Gabo y Mercedes: a farewell ', a book about the death of his father, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and his mother, Mercedes Barcha

In recent years, Rodrigo García (Bogotá, 61) has committed to transforming some of his father's books into great film works: he is executive producer of Noticia de un kidnapping (which is produced by Amazon Prime and is currently filming in Colombia) and Netflix's version of One Hundred Years of Solitude (which is still in a phase of pre-production).

But the family has always been very cautious not to reveal their intimacies, so the book is a small window to pain in his parents' house when Gabo lived his last days.

“We are not public figures,” said his mother, who watched that the privacy of the home was not in the newspapers. “I knew I wasn't going to publish these memoirs as long as she could read them,” the son now admits.

If his parents could read it now, Rodrigo said at the press conference, “I would like to think they would be happy and proud, although my mother would surely say to me: 'what gossips”.

These pages are the most intimate and honest chronicle of the last days of a genius, written with the astonishing precision and the right distance of an exceptional witness: Rodrigo himself. This is how we see the most humane side of a universal character and of the woman who noticed when she was a nine-year-old girl, who accompanied her all her life and who barely survived her for a few years, intertwined with memories of a unique life. The most beautiful farewell to the telegrapher's son and his wife.

Although the last days of Gabo are the most taken on the pages of this book, the last chapter is dedicated to the death of Mercedes, called the Gaba, a nickname that Rodrigo García rightly calls “patriarchal”. “But, despite that, everyone who knew her knew that she had become a magnificent version of herself”

Mercedes Barcha died in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, without all the cameras and followers who mourned Gabo's death. But like her husband, she would have demanded her children that if they were going to type their death, they would do so well that they leave every reader in a deep duel. In the days after her death, Rodrigo says he was constantly expecting a call from her. A call in which Mercedes would ask him: “So how was my death? No, calm down. Sit down. Tell it well, without haste”.

Press: @ezachavez
https://correocultural.com/

  • Comments (13)
Gustavo Perez
How well the son honors him through these books and the emphasis he gives to the great 'Garcia Marquez'.
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neygallardo
Must be an excellent book, thanks for suggesting
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Neider
It looks very interesting, although to be honest it's not my kind of book, I'm more of science fiction
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zulusys21
It looks like a great book like everything by Gabriel García Márquez here like that applies what they say son of cat pinticas.. I'm looking for it to read it
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naf1971naf
very good contribution, is a way of paying tribute to the one who deserves it
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ravena69
That's good, maybe we can find out a lot of things.
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Néstor David
I'll write it down in my readings 👍
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