This novel isn't very famous due to the shut down it suffered for a long time.
The book was published in 1986, and the Chilean Ministry of Interior recognized they had burned more than 15000 copies of the first edition November 28th, 1986 commanded by Augusto Pinochet (the leader of a military dictatorship in Chile from 1973 to 1990).
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca (Colombia) March 6th, 1927. He lived as an only child with his aunts and grandparents until their parents moved to Sucra, where the father opened a pharmacy and the mother gave birth to some of the other ten children of the marriage.
His grandparents were very particular and influenced in the literary journey of the Nobel; the grandfather was a coronel and a veteran that participated in the 1000-day war, the writer was told a lot of stories about his experiences in war and his youth. From the grandmother, he learned some fables and leyends (she was the source of supernatural and magic visions).
Later, he became a laws student in Bogota (even if this degree wasn't his passion) and he continued writing; he never graduated, but there he started working as a journalist.
García Márquez became famous after the publication of Cien años de soledad (One hundred years of Solitude) in 1967.
He also published books like Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). The most important prize he received is the Nobel Prize in 1982.
He finally died 17th April, 2014 in Mexico City (Mexico) of cancer.
After 10 years of dictatorship, Pinochet releases a list of people banished that now are able to come back to Chile, but Miguel is notthere.
As it is forbidden for him to come back, he feels forced to adopt a fake identity, profession and excuses in order to get in the country.
He impersonates a Uruguayan businessman and he film a documentary with three film crews about life in Chile during Pinochet's government. He films ordinary people but also some Resistance leaders that operated in secret. He also interviews a leader hidden in a secret hospital, where he is recovering from an attempted murder ordered by the government.
Miguel Littín succees in his mission and leaves the country when Pinochet has discovered his real identity and the police is investigating him.
The purpose of the documentary is to bring to light violent repression Chile and its people was living, the eway the government was offending against the population's rights and how the Resistence were trying to take the dictatorship down.
The most important character is Miguel Littín, and in the story (fiction) it is the main character, all the responsibility falls on him.
The real Miguel Littín is a film director from Chile, nominated five times in the Cannes Festival. Gabriel García Márquez wrote the story from his documentary, Acta General de Chile.
3. PUZZLE! Put all parts in order to discover an image!
4. GUESS the RELATIONSHIP between images.
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