by Gabriel García Márquez · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330255592
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«One Hundred Years of Solitude» is the magic realism novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Picador in paperback (336 pages, in English).
The novel tells the story of the Buendía family over seven generations in the fictional town of Macondo, where the real and the fantastic coexist. Through its characters, García Márquez explores love, solitude, destiny and the search for identity with an imaginative prose that defined magic realism.
Original title: «Cien años de soledad» (1967); English translation by Gregory Rabassa. Picador edition of 1978. García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
Reading for fans of contemporary fiction and Latin American literature.
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.
