num_pages: 541
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: Mauricio Babilonia, José Arcadio Buendía, Petra Cotes, Aureliano Segundo, Pilar Ternera, Remedios la bella Buendía, Pietro Crespi, José Arcadio Buendía, hijo, Rebeca Buendía, José Arcadio Segundo, Úrsula Iguarán, Aureliano Babilonia, Santa Sofía de la Piedad, Fernanda del Carpio, Amaranta Buendía, Remedios Moscote, Arcadio Buendía, Amaranta Úrsula Buendía, Gerineldo Márquez, Melquiades, Aureliano José, Aureliano Buendía, Meme Buendía
genres: Fantasy, Spanish Literature, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics, Magical Realism, Novels, Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 937570
places: Colombia, Macondo
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: G K Hall & Co