
by Gabriel García Márquez · Ediciones Orbis, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475300351

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«Cien años de soledad» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez published by Ediciones Orbis in paperback (441 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Buendía family over seven generations in the fictional town of Macondo, where the everyday blends with the prodigious and magical realism permeates the narrative. Amid wars, loves, lapses of memory and omens, the novel weaves a cycle of destinies marked by solitude and by gestures that return again and again.
The novel was first published in 1967 and won the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize (1972) and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (1969).
For readers of literary fiction interested in twentieth-century classics and magical realism.

Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
