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Cien años de soledad
The lives of the Buendía family unfold through love, solitude and extraordinary events in the town of Macondo.
Generation after generation returns to familiar names, desires and mistakes. The intimate history of a family becomes the history of a town, moving between invention, conflict, memory and forgetting. This anniversary edition pairs the novel with illustrations by Luisa Rivera.
Why I kept it
It was the first book I ever read.
Gabriel García Márquez published it in 1967. It follows seven generations of the Buendía family in the imaginary town of Macondo, and it is one of the reasons he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
Generation after generation returns to the same names, desires and mistakes, and the history of one family becomes the history of a town, moving between invention, conflict, memory and forgetting.
It helped me see the talent we have in Latin America. It is a classic, even though some of its themes can be touchy.
Author
Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, journalist and short-story writer. His fiction joins precise observation of everyday life with extraordinary events, often returning to the landscapes and memories of the Caribbean coast. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, he made the imaginary town of Macondo part of the world’s literary geography.
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The illustrated anniversary edition
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ExploreAbout this edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- W × H × D
- 175 × 228 × 32 mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Español
ISBN 9780525562443
Binding, interior and print finishes reconstructed for this showcase.