Love and Solitude
On the eve of the publication of his latest novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez—Gabo, as he’s known—talks to Pete Hamill in Cuba about fame, power, solitude, love, an his best friend, Fidel Castro.
BY PETE HAMILL
JULY 14, 2011
In the lobby of the Hotel Capri, the ghosts of fifties gangsters are moving among the delegates of the ninth Havana film festival. The bulletin board announces screenings of movies about political torture. A Havanatur kiosk offers day-trips to the Hemingway Museum and Lenin Park. From the tourist shop which sells cigars and needlepoint portraits of Che Guevara, a compact man a few months short of sixty emerges with newspapers under his arm. He glances at his watch, then starts across the lobby.
“Gabo. . .”
