Memory Mail Formation Publications

Author's name: Emma Reisdar Publisher: Takween Publications Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Biographies and memoirs Brief about the book: When Gabriel Garcia Marquez read Emma Reisdar's letters, in which she narrated the strangest and most beautiful childhood and adolescence stories of one of her close friends, the Nobel laureate was captivated by the Colombian artist's pen to the extent that he contacted her expressing his deep admiration. She only became angry with their mutual friend, believing that he had broken the implied privacy agreement between them when Garcia Marquez saw her letters, and she refrained from writing to him for more than twenty years. However, she resumed correspondence in the late last century, and agreed to publish her letters after much reluctance, on the condition that the proceeds from this book be allocated to a orphanage. "Memoirs' Mail" was first published in 2012, and was met with overwhelming acclaim, chosen as the book of the year in Colombia, and translated into many languages. The very existence of this work and everything related to it is extraordinary and astonishing, especially its author, the skilled storyteller who did not learn to read and write until a late stage of her life, and the visual artist who remained confined in a nunnery until nearly the age of eighteen. Perhaps the innocence with which Emma depicts her childhood scenes is what makes her letters so exceptional, as she still sees through the eyes of the little girl she once was, with all her wonder and spontaneity.