One Hundred Years of Solitude
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A landmark work of magical realism chronicling the Buendía family and the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo.
| Author Name |
Gabriel García Márquez |
|---|---|
| ISBN |
9780140157512 |
| Year of Publication |
2007 |
| Pages |
422 |
| Language |
English |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Publisher |
Penguin |
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ISBN: 9780140157512
Year Of Publication: 2007
Pages : 422
Language : English
Binding : Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Set in the fictional Latin American town of Macondo, the novel follows the Buendía family through generations of triumphs, conflicts, passions and tragedies. Márquez combines the personal history of the family with broader themes of political upheaval, war, colonialism, social change and collective memory. The novel’s magical-realist style allows myth, supernatural occurrences and ordinary life to exist side by side.
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Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was a Colombian novelist, journalist and screenwriter and one of the most influential writers of modern Latin American literature. Often associated with the literary movement of magical realism, he wrote internationally acclaimed works including Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán establish the remote settlement of Macondo, where their descendants experience generations of love, ambition, conflict and tragedy. As the family grows, the same names, personalities and patterns repeatedly appear, creating a sense that history is constantly repeating itself.
Macondo itself changes from an isolated settlement into a place shaped by commerce, political conflict, technological change and violence before eventually facing decline. Through the intertwined stories of the Buendías, Márquez examines solitude, memory, desire, war, power and the inability of individuals and societies to escape the patterns of the past.
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