Description
One Hundred Years of Solitudetells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buenda family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women — brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul — this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.
Gabriel Garca Mrquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia. Latin America’s preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Garca Mrquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the PatriarchandLove in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiographyLiving to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life’s work since he passed away in April 2014.
Harper Perennial
Pub Date: February 01, 2006
1.1″ H x 7.87″ L x 5.35″ W
448 pages
paperback
