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: 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: 937059
places: Macondo, Colombia
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: Buccaneer