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"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life." --William Kennedy, National Observer

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It's now available as a special Harper Perennial Olive Edition.

The story of the village of Macondo, as seen through the lives of seven generations of the Buendía family, is told with Marquez's trademark mastery of magical realism. The founders, José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán, establish the village while camping on a riverbank, after José dreams about a "city of mirrors" that would reflect the world. The people of the town - which is solitary and disconnected from the outside world, save for a band of nomads that visits every year - experience extraordinary events across generations, until they are finally unable to hide from the the newly independent government of Colombia. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. The novel has been translated into dozens of languages, making it a classic of truly global proportions.

Harper Perennial Olive Editions are exclusive small-format editions of some of our bestselling and celebrated titles, and feature unique hand-drawn cover illustrations. All Olive Editions are available for a limited time only.

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Format: MassMarketPaperback
Author: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
ISBN: 9780380015030
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 6.80 x 1.00
Publication Year: 1982

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Patricia W. - 16 days ago

I liked it eventually. It was hard to keep all the characters straight. I'm glad I read it. Also glad it's over.(This was a book club selection. I didn't pick it, so I still have friends. )

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Margey A. - 4 years ago

I actually never received the book. UPS says they gave it to USPS, USPS says they never got it. Blahblahblah. But HPB was very nice when I called them for a refund. Would've been 5 stars but they couldn't ship me the book. I had to re-order it.
Magic Realism at its peak

Byron O. - 7 years 3 months ago

Garcia Marquez manages to detail the history of Latin America in the history of a family in a remote village. In engaging prose, we are taken through a metaphorical and surreal set of lifetimes in the Buendia family. The chart of family members comes in handy as the book jumps from timeframe to timeframe. The events that transpire in this book are beyond the normal experience of most of us. What has happened to this village, to this family (and by extension, to Colombia and Latin America more generally) can't be contained in the normal realm of experience, though, and so magical realism is born. Garcia Marquez deftly approaches this new surreality, pulling the reader ever onward toward the terminus of the Buendias. Anyone interested in the endurance of family, love and the human spirit in the face of a crippling modernity and the encroaching nature of technological 'progress' (with the inevitable exploitation of it by capitalism) should definitely check this novel out.
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