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The Deia retreat where Garcia Marquez wrote his masterpiece is for sale, writes Zoe Dare Hall Solitude is hard to find on a small island, but in Deia on Majorca's northern ridge, the Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez found inspiration for one of his greatest works. "Marquez used to stay in this house, Can Blau, in the 1960s and 1970s when visiting his friend Claribel Alegria, a Nicaraguan poet who raised her family here. While he was here, it's believed he was writing One Hundred Years of Solitude," says Stephen Thompson, the current owner of Can Blau. The 14th-century stone house is set in the heart of the mountain village whose unspoilt charm and natural beauty has seen creative spirits from Robert Graves and Kingsley Amis to Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger seek refuge there. Stephen, 56, a financial... [read full story]
