100 Years of Solitude

Name: 100 Years of Solitude
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780062096982

by Unknown Author

512 pages2016HarperCollins PublishersISBN 9780062096982

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature<br/>One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant tale of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.<br/>Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senilitythe variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truththese universal themes dominate the novel.<br/>Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual into a masterful accounting of the history of the human race.

Publication Details

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9780062096982
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as "Gabo" throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his 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; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. [1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_García_Márquez