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Michael Chabon (2/27/2002)

Michael Chabon reads an excerpt from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez: Banned Books Week 2001

Michael Chabon
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Hear author Michael Chabon read an excerpt from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez as part of the ACLU's Banned Books Week audio special.

Love in the Time of Cholera was challenged in 1998 by a parent of a student in the Montgomery County, Maryland school district. The parent asked that the book be removed from all county schools because it contained ""perverse sexual acts, adults having sex with children, and rape."" Luckily, the book was retained on the school reading lists and library shelves. Garcia-Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, for which he won the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature, has been banned and/or challenged in California, South Carolina and Virginia.

Michael Chabon is the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other works include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, which was made into a critically acclaimed film, and Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories. Chabon is currently at work on a film adaptation of Kavalier and Clay. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, author Ayelet Waldman, and their two children.

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