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One Hundred Years of Solitude Paperback - 2004

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Gregory Rabassa (Translator)


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One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the life of Macondo, a fictional town based in part of Garcia Marquez's hometown of Aracataca, Columbia, and seven generations of the founding family, the Buendias. He creates a complex world with characters and events that display the full range of human experience. For the reader, the pleasure of the novel derives from its fast-paced narrative, humor, vivid characters, and fantasy elements. In this 'magic realism', the author combines imaginative flights of fancy with social realism to give us images of levitating priests, flying carpets, a four-year-long rainstorm, and a young woman ascending to heaven while folding sheets" (NYPL Books of the Century 31).

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One of the 20th century's enduring works, "One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career.

The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendi a family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendi a family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.

Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master.

Alternately reverential and comical, "One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

First line

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.

First Edition Identification

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad),  was first published in Spanish in 1967 by Editorial Sudamericana. It was later published in English in 1970 by Harper & Row. 

True first edition, 1967 Cien Años de Soledad- Octavo, in bright  illustrated wrappers. 

First American Edition published by Harper & Row, New York, 1970 - Octavo, original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. The first issue features a dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap instead of the period mark on later issues

 First British edition published by Jonathan Cape, London, in 1970-  Octavo, original green cloth. 

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  • Title One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Gregory Rabassa (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 458
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date January 20, 2004
  • ISBN 9780060740450 / 0060740450
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 6.82 x 1.11 in (20.27 x 17.32 x 2.82 cm)
  • Reading level 1410
  • Library of Congress subjects Epic fiction, Latin America - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98024308
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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