num_pages: 422
description: 'MANY YEARS LATER, AS HE FACED THE FIRING SQUAD, COLONEL AURELIANO BUENDÍA WAS TO REMEMBER THAT DISTANT AFTERNOON WHEN HIS FATHER TOOK HIM TO DISCOVER ICE'Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where José Arcadio Buendía and his strong-willed wife, Úrsula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquíades excites Aureliano Buendía and his father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands.Through plagues of insomia, civil war, hauntings and vendettas, the many tribulations of the Buendía household push memories of the manuscript aside. Few remember its existence and only one will discover the hidden message that it holds...
language: English
title: One Hundred Years of Solitude
titlecomplete: One Hundred Years of Solitude
characters: Remedios la bella Buendía, Fernanda del Carpio, Amaranta Buendía, Santa Sofía de la Piedad, Úrsula Iguarán, Meme Buendía, Mauricio Babilonia, José Arcadio Buendía, hijo, Aureliano José, Gerineldo Márquez, José Arcadio Buendía, Amaranta Úrsula Buendía, Aureliano Segundo, Rebeca Buendía, Remedios Moscote, Aureliano Babilonia, Arcadio Buendía, Melquiades, Aureliano Buendía, Petra Cotes, José Arcadio Segundo, Pilar Ternera, Pietro Crespi
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Spanish Literature, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Unfinished, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 937394
places: Macondo, Colombia
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: Penguin Books