The timeline of this book stops in 1984, which was published last year, but it is contemporary. Gabriel Garcia Marquez won a Nobel Prize for literature. This book has assorted journalistic writings, opinion pieces and reportage, and is not a book of stories. But in a way, it is. After all, journalists call their reportage a “story”. The book is factual and takes much narrative licence with facts. It is not necessary to read it as a journalistic reportage. It could be read as fiction. Just as well. With the passage of time, facts embellished by interpretations, with human nature