"The book that changed me as a teenager
My best friend’s brother gave me a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I had never had such a visceral reaction to a book. I will never forget the feeling, a kind of bodily frisson, when I read the passage about the character who ascends into heaven. It taught me the exquisite power of stories, their ability to engage your imagination and permanently stamp things on your mind in a way that nothing else can."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/15/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-nigerian-writer

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