One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buenedia family and of Mocondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Mocondo 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 Solitudeis one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.

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Author

Gabriel García Márquez

Pages

422

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

2000

ISBN

014118499X 9780141184999

Ratings

Google: 5

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"Alright, I've made two separate attempts to make it through this book and both times have failed, so I am giving up for awhile and moving on. I would like to finish it someday, but can't do it right now. While I appreciate the trippy dream-like bizarre scenarios so vividly created through intense imagery, plot and character-wise the book is too fragmented & strange for me to follow through and keep track of even what is happening."

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Rebekah Travis

"The best literacy in magical realism "