num_pages: 417
description: One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for 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 Buendía 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."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. Garcí­a Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life."—New York Times Book Review"More lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from one hundred years of novelists, let alone one man."—Washington Post Book World
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: Harper Perennial Modern Classics