Name: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Author: Gabriel García Márquez
ISBN: 9780241968581

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Physical Book

Author

Gabriel García Márquez

Publisher

Penguin

Synopsis "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where José Arcadio Buendía and his strong-willed wife, Ursula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquíades excites Aureliano Buendía and his father with new investions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands. Through plagues of insomnia, civil war, hauntings and vendettas, the many tribulations of the Buendía household push memories of the manuscript aside. Few remember its existence and only one will discover the hidden message that it holds . . . 'It's the most magical book I have ever read. Márquez has influenced the world.' Carolina Herrera 'Should be required reading for the entire human race.' The New York Times 'Enormously, kaleidoscopically, mysteriously alive.' Guardian

Gabriel García Márquez

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(1927- 2014), nacido en Colombia, es una de las figuras más importantes e influyentes de la literatura universal. Ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1982, fue, además de novelista, cuentista, ensayista, crítico cinematográfico, autor de guiones y un intelectual comprometido con los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo, sobre todo los que afectaban a su amada Colombia y a Hispanoamérica en general. Máxima figura del llamado «realismo mágico». Fue en definitiva, el hacedor de uno de los mundos narrativos más densos de significado que ha dado la lengua española en el siglo XX.

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