"It rained for four years, eleven months, and two days. There were periods of drizzle during which everyone put on his full dress and a convalescent look to celebrate the clearing, but people soon grew accustomed to interpret the pauses as a sign of redoubled rain."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, journalist, and Nobel laureate associated with magical realism. He is best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His fiction and nonfiction significantly shaped modern world literature.