'Quite the nearest thing to pure sensual pleasure that prose can offer' Daily Telegraph

'A single sentence of Garcia Marquez often has more meat to it than many whole novels' Observer

'Of all the living authors known to me, only one is undoubtedly touched by genius: Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Sunday Telegraph

'A truly inspired storyteller' New Statesman

'An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph

'An imaginative writer of genius, the topmost pinnacle of an entire generation of Latin American novelists of cathedral-like proportions' Guardian

'One of this century's most evocative writers' Anne Tyler, Chicago Sun-Times

'Garcia Marquez leaves an ineffaceable impression of magic, mystery and mastery' Spectator

'Garcia Marquez is obsessed by death, by roses and by an ability to see life as if from just around the corner. He writes with power, using terrifying images. He fascinates utterly even while repelling and shocking' Daily Telegraph

'Garcia Marquez is a retailer of wonders' Sunday Times

'No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Marquez's writing' Sunday Telegraph