Gabriel garcia marquez, now 75 and suffering from cancer, made the most important decision of his life as a writer when he was 22-to accompany his mother on a journey, by steamer and rickety train, to Aracataca, a small town surrounded by swamps and banana plantations in the heart of Colombia's northern coastal plain. The ostensible purpose of the trip was to sell his grandparents' house, where the author was born and had spent most of his first eight years.
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