Scandal of the century

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - the greatest writer of the twentieth century, Nobel laureate
Prizes, author of the world -famous novels “Hundred Years of Loneliness”, “Love in
Time of Plague” and “Autumn of the Patriarch”.
Throughout Marquez has repeatedly emphasized his life that in the first
queue considers himself a journalist and devoted a considerable part of his time
precisely reporting. Moreover - he assured that even his
literary texts built on the principle of a newspaper article. However, those who
read his journalism will confidently say that the situation was exactly
on the contrary: Marquez wrote his newspaper and journal articles not as dry
reports, but as real works of art. And in full, this
refers to the central work of the collection - “The Scandal of the Century”,
written in the genre of a documentary detective. The author masterfully captures
The reader"s attention from the very first words does not let him go to the very last
pages.
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April 9, 1953, the young one left and did not return Roman beauty
Vilma Montezi. A day later, her body is half -destroyed, but without traces of sexual violence -
threw ashore by sea waves. The police suggests an accident. And in fact, who could interfere with
the daughter of a respectable carpenter and the happy bride of a young policeman?
So the dizzying criminal story shocked all Italy begins,
in which gangsters and pop stars were involved, “gold
youth” and large politicians, actresses, adventurers and elite “nights /> butterflies