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One Hundred Years of Solitude

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014. Book - 2006 Adult Book / Fiction / Classic / Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, Fiction / García Márquez, Gabriel None on shelf 5 requests on 5 copies Community Rating: 4.6 out of 5

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"Originally published in Argentina in 1967"--Title page verso.
Hardcover edition published by Harper & Row in 1970.
Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."
Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.

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Challenging submitted by lballard on August 7, 2015, 7:45am I'm not normally a fan of magical realism, so this book was hard to love. The characters mostly won me over in the end. Still, it's very slow going at first.

one hundred years of solituded submitted by sandri on August 13, 2018, 4:13pm wow!!! Magical book , open my imagination.

A true classic submitted by jayzwack on July 30, 2019, 7:24pm I am on my third reading and I'm finding it's a different book each time, or at least I remember different parts. Each time I've found it immensely satisfying.

Lush imagery submitted by sestho on June 15, 2020, 10:41pm The similar names used in this book kept me referring back to the family tree diagram provided at the beginning, but other than that challenge, I loved the story. Rich with surreal imagery, I connected with the characters and the plot.

hmm submitted by smr on June 20, 2021, 12:07pm one hundred

Well written, amazed at how things came together submitted by bahr on July 23, 2021, 10:58pm I felt like Marquez masterfully crafted this book, with moral themes woven into it and all of these small details that might have gone unnoticed earlier in the book and ended up mattering quite a lot. Marquez doesn't hit you over the head with things, but rather unfolds them slowly. I really enjoyed reading this book.

One of the best novels ever written submitted by StephB on June 11, 2022, 3:26pm Although it is not always easy reading, and keeping the characters straight is at least as difficult as it is in long Russian novels, OHYOS is one of the greatest novels of all time, even in the English translation. This exemplar of magical realism has to be one of the main reasons Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Set in the imaginary town of Macondo, the novel chronicles the history of the Buendia family.

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

Novel that changed my life course? submitted by pililachiquita on June 30, 2023, 2:37pm I first read "Cien Años de Soledad" as a junior in high school, along with other Spanish classics, like "Don Quijote". It was my first introduction to the world/genre of magic realism, and its offshoots. Though I did not fully grasp all it had to offer at the time, it propelled me to pursue a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies. As an adult, I gain further insight into what GGM was seeking to portray about Columbia and Latin America. It is ripe with veiled criticism of the government and the social injustices it propagated, praise and melancholy of culture and traditions seemingly lost or forgotten, and yet offers a tone of hope that not all traces of the past has been erased from national memory. It is a timeless classic of Latin American fiction (it won the Nobel Prize in 1984), and continues to be an influential living document, still relevant to social going ons in Latin America and beyond.

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SERIES
Harper Perennial modern classics



PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 417, 16 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 1410

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780060883287 (softcover)
006112009X
0060740450
0060929790
0072434236
038001503X

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Rabassa, Gregory,

SUBJECTS
Macondo (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.
Latin America -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Epic fiction.
Magic realist fiction.