num_pages: 416
description: 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 Buendía 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 Buendía 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 García Márquez 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.
language: English
title: One Hundred Years of Solitude
titlecomplete: One Hundred Years of Solitude
characters: Amaranta Buendía, Aureliano Segundo, Remedios Moscote, Aureliano Buendía, Rebeca Buendía, Santa Sofía de la Piedad, Aureliano Babilonia, Úrsula Iguarán, Mauricio Babilonia, Melquiades, Aureliano José, Remedios la bella Buendía, Amaranta Úrsula Buendía, Meme Buendía, Pietro Crespi, José Arcadio Buendía, Petra Cotes, Arcadio Buendía, Fernanda del Carpio, José Arcadio Segundo, Gerineldo Márquez, José Arcadio Buendía, hijo, Pilar Ternera
genres: Spanish Literature, Unfinished, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 937028
places: Macondo, Colombia
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: Everyman's Library / Knopf