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One Hundred Years of Solitude Paperback - 2006

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of the 20th century's enduring works, Marquez's masterpiece is the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career. Alternately reverential and comical, this novel weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling.


About this book

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).

From the publisher

"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. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life." --William Kennedy, New York Times Book Review

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendi family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women--brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul--this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buend�a family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

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
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
  • Date 2006-02-01
  • ISBN 9780060883287 / 0060883286
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.87 x 5.35 x 1.1 in (19.99 x 13.59 x 2.79 cm)
  • Reading level 1410
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Fiction, Epic fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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