It rains on 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'

Gabriel García Márquez, in Rome in 1969.Vittoriano Rastelli / Getty Images

Álvaro Santana-Acuña was born in La Laguna (Tenerife) 43 years ago.

That is probably the rainiest Canarian city, but it was at Harvard, in 2007, where he associated the deluge with

, Gabriel García Márquez's main novel, in which it rains even butterflies.

It was pouring down on Harvard when he had to meet with his thesis supervisor and the huge shower over Macondo came to mind, so when the professor ...

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