One Hundred Years of Solitude
$21.25
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
25 July 2001
Summary
Famously associated with the term ‘magical realism’, Marquez is probably South America’s most famous literary export.
An acknowledged masterpiece, this 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184999 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014118499X |
| Author: | Gregory Rabassa, Gabriel García Márquez |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 25 July 2001 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Getting lost and succumbing to the mastery of Gabriel García Márquez’s storytelling is all part of the joy of this epic tale … This incredible novel put me under a spell – Dua Lipa
About The Author
Gregory Rabassa
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writes to the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama’s Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.
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