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One Hundred Years of Solitude
The novel that invented a whole mode of storytelling. Marquez made the impossible feel more real than anything you could touch.
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The Buendia Saga
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 Nobel Prize-winning novel follows seven generations of the Buendia family in the imaginary Colombian town of Macondo, from its founding through its eventual destruction. Yellow butterflies announce love. A man bleeds green. A woman ascends to heaven while folding laundry. Marquez blends myth, history, and everyday life with such complete authority that magic and reality become indistinguishable. The novel is the cornerstone of magical realism and one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.


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Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude
3 Mythic
3 Enchanted
4 Dread
4 Hypnotic
5 Dizzying
5 Devastating

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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.


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Marquez was driving his family to a vacation when the entire novel came to him in a flash. He turned the car around, went home, and spent eighteen months writing it. The family sold their car to pay bills while he worked.
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The first edition sold out in Buenos Aires within a week of publication in 1967. It has now sold over 50 million copies and been translated into more than 45 languages. Marquez won the Nobel Prize in 1982.


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