He is more than a writer. Latin American prophet. For example, when a new constitution was being drafted in Venezuela (not even in its native Colombia!), as a result of a heated discussion in the National Assembly that miraculously avoided the use of firearms, it was decided to turn to “the great García Márquez.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a man of the future. And this book is about the life, work and love of a man whom Salman Rushdie, famous for his exercises on the themes of the Koran, calls in his articles nothing less than “Magical Marquez”. This biography is especially valuable because it was written by Sergei Markov, a famous international journalist, writer, film playwright, specialist in the work of Marquez, who had the opportunity to personally meet with the “Cervantes of our time.”