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Article: For Garcia Marquez, a Magical Homecoming; Colombian Community Honors Literary Hero
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- The Washington Post
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- June 2, 2007
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It had been a long time, seemingly as long as the epidemic of
insomnia or the chaotic flood that struck the fictional version of
this forlorn town.
This week, with thousands of people as witnesses, this sleepy and
self-obsessed community finally had a visit from its most famous son
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize-winning author who
turned Aracataca into the fantastical hamlet of Macondo for millions
of readers worldwide but had not returned in a quarter-century.
On Wednesday, a vintage train -- dubbed the Yellow Train of
Macondo -- rumbled past shantytowns on the coast and through what
the author called the "hermetic realm of the banana region" before
coming to a long halt in ...