Rank 22 of 100
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Also known as Cien años de soledad
Synopsis
The Buendía family founds the town of Macondo and then spends a century repeating its own names, loves, and mistakes. García Márquez lets miracles sit next to massacres without raising his voice, until history and private obsession become the same weather.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1967
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Colombia
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Literary, Historical
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Magical realism
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 417 pages
- Reported copies
- About 50 million copies
- Kind
- Fiction