One Hundred Years of Solitude

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Celebrate the centenary of Gabriel García Márquez’s birth with this special edition of his classic novel. Gabriel García Márquez’s great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they 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 Colombian 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. ‘Should be required reading for the entire human race’ The New York Times ‘The greatest novel in any language of the last fifty years. No writer since Dickens was so widely read, and so deeply loved, as Gabriel García Márquez.’ Salman Rushdie ‘Enormously, kaleidoscopically, mysteriously alive. Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature. Gabriel García Márquez did just that’’ Guardian