num_pages: 416
description: The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."
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: 937222
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