{"product_id":"the-scandal-of-the-century-and-other-writings","title":"The Scandal of the Century and Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of 20th century literature\"I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism,\" Gabriel Garcia Marquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career--years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla .\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. . his longer, more fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome .\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. . his monthly columns for Spain's El Pais.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be \"the best in the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e Published: USA, 2019\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf\u003cbr\u003e Pages: 302\u003cbr\u003e Language: English\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9780525656425\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 0525656421\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gabriel Garcia Marquez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43921964695818,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9780802125590_b6413ac3-f93d-4ea2-9996-f35332c45b94.jpg?v=1670501638","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-scandal-of-the-century-and-other-writings","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}