Allende presents a portrait of a world that was thoroughly exterminated.(Dispatches)

From: The Sunday Independent (South Africa) | Date: February 18, 2007 | Copyright information

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende bears roughly the same relationship to Gabriel Garcia Marquez as Virginia Woolf bore to James Joyce. There are few lines in literature that are recalled by so many readers with so much pleasure as the opening sentence of Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

And that is only the first in a novel that is composed of one surprise after another. Garcia Marquez's principal gift to ...

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