On October 5, 2007, Oprah’s Book Club announced Love in the Time of Cholera, a 1985 novel by Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel García Márquez as its selection. Not only was recognition of the author and book greatly enhanced in North America, but his translator Edith Grossman also gained much-deserved recognition. Another work by Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was a previous selection for the book club in 2004. On April 17, 2014, Gabriel Garcia Marques, a master of magical realism died at home in Mexico City at the age of 87.