One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Equally tragic; joyful and comical; Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece of magical realism; One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality; translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa in Penguin Modern Classics. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo; the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains; Macondo has its wars and disasters; even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life; its secrets lie hidden; encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism; fantasy with comic invention; One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928) was born in Aracataca; Colombia. He is the author of several novels; including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. If you enjoyed One Hundred Years of Solitude; you might like Love in the Time of Cholera; also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'With a single bound Gabriel Garcia Marquez leaps on the stage with Gunter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov ... dazzling' The New York Times