num_pages: 422
description: A best seller and critical success in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of teh mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and billiant chronicle of life and death and the tragicomedy of man. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendia family one sees all mankind, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, reiches and poverty, youth and senility--the variety of life, the endlessness fo death, the search for peace and truth--these, the universal themes, dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Garcia Marquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark fo a master. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettale men and women, and with a truth and understanding that strike the soul, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of the art of fiction.
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: 937188
places: Macondo, Colombia
awards: awardedAt: 63100800000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman
publisher: HarperCollins