One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García MárquezAbout This Book
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (1982) stands as one of the most significant works of literary fiction of its era. The founding text of magical realism follows seven generations of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo. García Márquez blends myth, history, and the supernatural into a hypnotic narrative of love, war, and solitude. It is the defining Latin American novel of the twentieth century and central to the Nobel committee's recognition of García Márquez. Themes of solitude, magical realism, family run through the work. The book has received recognition from Nobel Prize in Literature 1982.
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📖 Literary Fiction
Character-driven fiction that prioritises style, theme, and psychological depth.
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Gabriel García Márquez is a celebrated author from Colombia known for influential works of literary fiction.
