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He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including one hundred years of solitude and love in the time of cholera. I am trying to make the text in digital form to ensure that i am not going to loose any of them. Here the guardian ran excerpts from this fictionalised autobiography. Recounting the themes of desire in marquez memories of my.
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