One Hundred Years of Solitude
- ISBN-10
- 0140278761
- ISBN-13
- 9780140278767
- Series
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Category
- English
- Pages
- 422
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Authors
- Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa
Description
This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb. 'His masterpiece and one of the undeniable classics of the century.' The Times 'One of a glittering constellation of contemporary Latin American novelists ... He is the author of a classic on the grandest scale ... the most obvious comparison is with Homer's Odyssey ... Garcia Marquez is a spellbinder' Spectator
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