No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of disconnect between my sense of imagination and the world around me, which I don't think is common for Americans. It forces you to learn to look at the world through other people's eyes.