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PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF ...

Equally tragic  joyful and comical  Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece of magical realism 
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality  translated from the
Spanish by Gregory Rabassa in Penguin Modern Classics. Gabriel García Márquez's great
masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo  the town
they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains  Macondo has its
wars and disasters  even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life  its secrets
lie hidden  encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal
its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism  fantasy with comic
invention  One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the
twentieth century. Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928) was born in Aracataca  Colombia. He is the
author of several novels  including Leaf Storm (1955)  One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) 
The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975)  Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His
Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. If you enjoyed One
Hundred Years of Solitude  you might like Love in the Time of Cholera  also available in
Penguin Modern Classics. 'With a single bound Gabriel García Márquez leaps on the stage with
Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov ... dazzling' The New York Times

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