He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. 'No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing' Sunday Telegraph Read more 'The book that sort of saved my life' Emma Thompson 'Should be required reading for the entire human race' The New York Times 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.īlending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles. Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. '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' ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

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