One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s finest and most famous work, the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buendia generations-from Jose Arcadio and Osrsula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buendia (who commands numerous revolutions and fathers eighteen additional Aurelianos), through three additional Jose Arcadios, through Remedios the Beauty and Renata Remedios, to the final Aureliano, child of an incestuous union. As babies are born and the world''s ''great inventions'' are introduced into Macondo, the village grows and becomes more and more subject to the workings of the outside world, to its politics and progress, and to history itself. And the Buendias and their fellow Macondons advance in years, experience, and wealth . . . until madness, corruption, and death enter their homes. Gabriel Garcia Marquez''s classic novel weaves a magical tapestry of the everyday and the fantastic, the humdrum and the miraculous, life and death, tragedy and comedy-a tapestry in which the noble, the ridiculous, the beautiful, and the tawdry all contribute to an astounding vision of human life and death, a full measure of humankind''s inescapable potential and reality. ''One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.''-New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel/ Rabassa Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Assisted by: Gregory Rabassa (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.02.2006
• EAN: 9780060883287
• ISBN: 978-0-06-088328-7
• No. of pages: 417
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 203 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Kolumbianische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Sagas, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: CLASSIC FICTION, FICTION: Religious, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Magical Realism, FICTION: Southern, FICTION: Dystopian, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION