From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Prologue : from origins obscure (1800-1899)
pt. I. Home : Colombia : 1899-1955
1. Of colonels and lost causes (1899-1927)
2. The house at Aracataca (1927-1928)
3. Holding his grandfather's hand (1929-1937)
4. Schooldays : Barranquilla, Sucre, Zipaquirá (1938-1946)
5. The university student and the Bogotazo (1947-1948)
6. Back to the Costa : an apprentice journalist in Cartagena (1948-1949)
7. Barranquilla, a bookseller and a Bohemian group (1950-1953)
8. Back to Bogotá : the ace reporter (1954-1955)
pt. II. Abroad : Europe and Latin America : 1955-1967
9. The discovery of Europe : Rome (1955)
10. Hungry in Paris : La Bohème (1956-1957)
11. Beyond the Iron Curtain : Eastern Europe during the Cold War (1957)
12. Venezuela and Colombia : the birth of Big Mama (1958-1959)
13. The Cuban Revolution and the USA (1959-1961)
14. Escape to Mexico (1961-1964)
15. Melquíades the Magician : One hundred Years of Solitude (1965-1966)
16. Fame at last (1966-1967)
pt. III. Man of the world : celebrity and politics : 1967-2005
17. Barcelona and the Latin American boom : between literature and politics (1967-1970)
18. The solitary author slowly writes : The Autumn of the Patriarch and the wider world (1971-1975)
19. Chile and Cuba : García Márquez opts for the Revolution (1973-1979)
20. Return to literature : Chronicle of a Death Foretold and the Nobel Prize (1980-1982)
21. The frenzy of renown and the fragrance of Guava : Love in the Time of Cholera (1982-1985)
22. Against official history : García Márquez's Bolívar (The General in His Labyrinth) (1986-1989)
23. Back to Macondo? News of a historic catastrophe (1990-1996)
24. García Márquez at seventy and beyond : memoirs and melancholy whores (1996-2005)
the new Cervantes (2006-2007)
