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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez author Gregory Rabassa translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:6th Mar '14

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A stunning new edition of one of the world's most beloved novels, ahead of the forthcoming Netflix adaptation.

Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, this book is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.

ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
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'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'

Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book, and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny.

Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.
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'As steamy, dense and sensual as the jungle that surrounds the surreal town of Macondo!' Oprah, Featured in Oprah's Book Club

'Should be required reading for the entire human race' The New York Times


'The book that sort of saved my life' Emma Thompson

'No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing' Sunday Telegraph

The book that sort of saved my life
The greatest novel in any language of the last 50 years
Should be required reading for the entire human race * New York Times *

ISBN: 9780241968581

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 25mm

Weight: 299g

432 pages