This picture-book biography of Gabriel Garcia Mrquez ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") traces the Nobel Prize-winning novelists life from his childhood in Colombia to today, using the imagery from his eclectic novels. Full color.

The war is ending, perhaps ended... For the castle and its occupants the troubles are just beginning. Armed gangs roam its lawless land where each farm and house supports a column of dark smoke. Taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems after than remaining in the ancient keep. But the lieutenant of an outlaw band has other ideas, and the castle becomes the focus for a dangerous game of desire, deceit and death. Combining a gripping narrative with a soaring, voyaging imagination, 'A Song of Stone' addresses timeless questions of truth, betrayal, duty and loyalty, weaving them round a complex plot into a seamless, Spellbinding whole.