Probably Garcma Marquez's finest and most famous work. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendma family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a truth and understanding that strike the soul. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a masterpiece of the art of fiction.
Reviews
"You emerge from this marvelous novel as if from a dream, the mind on fire . . . With a single bound, Gabriel Garcia Marquez leaps onto the stage with Gunter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov, his appetite as enormous as his imagination, his fatalism greater than either. Dazzling." --THE NEW YORK TIMES "Garcia Marquez forces upon us at every page the wonder and extravagance of life, while compassionately mocking its effusions; and when the book ends . . . we are left with that pleasant exhaustion which only very great novels provide . . . [Garcia Marquez] makes us feel as if we had survived his century of articulate dreams only to awaken and discover that they must finally all come true." --THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS "In a beautiful translation, surrealism and innocence blend to form a wholly individual style. Like rum "calentano," the story goes down easily, leaving a rich, sweet burning flavor behind." --TIME "Rabassa's translation is a triumph of fluent, gravid momentum, all stylishness and commonsensical virtuosity . . . Garcia Marquez feeds the mind's eye non-stop . . . Like the jungle itself, this novel comes back again and again, fecund, savage and irresistible." --CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK WORLD