One Hundred Years of Solitude

by GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL

• ISBN13: 9780679444657
• ISBN10: 0679444653
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

One of the most influential literary works of our time, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

Author Biography

García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928.  He attended the University of Bogotá and went on to become a reporter for the Colombian newspaper <b>El Espectador</b>.  He later served as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York.  Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, he is the author of several novels and collections, including <b>No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories</b>, <b>The Autumn of the Patriarch</b>, <b>Innocent Erendira and Other Stories</b>, <b>Chronicle of a Death Foretold</b>, <b>The General in His Labyrinth</b>, <b>Strange Pilgrims</b>, and <b>Love and Other Demons</b>.