Memoirs of a great writer about childhood. Memories in which very real events are intricately intertwined with fictional events - and completely incredible. Amazing, unusual memoirs. The author himself, not without irony, claims that everything in them is “the pure truth, the truth from Gabriel García Márquez.” This is important for the reader to remember, because the famous master of magical realism puts even his childhood memories into his usual literary form. And It is no coincidence that the epigraph to this book was the words: “Life is not only what a person has lived, but also what he remembers and what he talks about it.”