One of the world's most famous novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, blends the natural
with the supernatural in one of the most magical reading experiences on earth.
'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 have 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. 'Dazzling' The New
York Times