by Gabriel García Márquez · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140278767
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«One Hundred Years of Solitude» is Gabriel García Márquez's magical realism novel, published by Penguin in paperback (432 pages, in English).
The novel follows the Buendía family over seven generations in Macondo, a village they founded in the South American jungle. Between the real and the fantastic, the story brings together a Spanish galleon stranded in the jungle, a flying carpet and an iguana in a woman's womb, as its characters experience love, war and destiny.
The original work appeared in 1967; this English edition, published by Penguin in 1998, is the translation by Gregory Rabassa.
For readers of literary fiction and magical realism, with a regular presence in book clubs and classic lists.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
