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This novel that sets a new bar in contemporary letters is unlike any probably encountered by the reader, who asks, "Who is painting the portrait of whom?" At turns funny and sumptuously styled, GOD Was Born in 1959 is an epic comic romp that may very well possibly be the only rival of Nabokov's posthumously published The Original of Laura among novels of the twenty-first century. There is no third, not even Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores. Also by García Márquez: I: a novel.