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One Hundred Years of Solitude. By Gabriel García Márquez. 448 pages. Harper Perennial Modern Classics. $15.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Márquez’s magical mystery tour begins with one of the most engaging lines in fiction”
Márquez’s magical mystery tour begins with one of the most engaging lines in fiction: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” What follows is an exhilarating recounting of a century in the imaginary Colombian town of Macondo—the comedies and tragedies, joy and suffering, sublime and ridiculous. An entire town, for example, is afflicted with insomnia at one point in the novel. A woman literally rises to Heaven while drying her laundry. And eventually, the firing squad fires.
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This is one of my favorite books. I am Colombian and have read it in both Spanish and English. I read it in English for school and in Spanish for leisure and both times I could not put it down. It definitely keeps you on your toes with all of the generations and name repetitions. It's a fantastic read!
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