100 Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
One of the 20th century's enduring works, Marquez's masterpiece is the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career. Alternately reverential and comical, this novel weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling.
Hardcover
English
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Publisher Description
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendi a family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.
Author Biography
Gabriel GarcIa MArquez was born in Colombia in 1927. His many books include "The Autumn of the Patriarch; No One Writes to the Colonel; Love in the Time of Cholera;" a memoir, "Living to Tell the Tale"; and, most recently, a novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores". Gabriel GarcIa MArquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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