Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia.Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Garcia Marquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since he passed away in April 2014.
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An irresistible work of storytelling, mixing the magic of the fairy
tale, the realistic detail of the domestic novel and the breadth of
the family saga."--New York Times
"Fecund, savage, irresistible. . . . In all their loves, madness,
and wars, their alliances, compromises, dreams and deaths...the
characters rear up large and rippling with life against the green
pressure of nature itself."--Paul West, Book
World
"More lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from 100
years of novelists, let alone one man."--Washington Post
Book World
"One Hundred Years of Solitude is substantive and
substantial, and its prose precise for the simple reason that its
sentences are too exquisite to be inessential. It is a novel on
which is bestowed the laurels usually awarded to great works of
frugal prose. Yet its genius is in the operatic
telling."--The Independent
"At 50 years old, Garcia Marquez's
masterpiece is as important as ever. . . To experience a towering
work like One Hundred Years of Solitude is to be reminded
of the humility we should all feel when trying to assert what is
true and what is false."--LitHub
"One Hundred Years of Solitude offers plenty of
reflections on loneliness and the passing of time. It can also be
seen as a caustic commentary on the evils of war, or a warm
appreciation of familial bonds. Garcia Marquez has urgent things to
say that still feel close to home, 50 years after the book was
first published."--The Guardian
"One of the seminal works of 20th century Latin American fiction,
it is a classic."--Variety
"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece
of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required
reading for the entire human race. It takes up not long after
Genesis left off and carries through to the air age, reporting on
everything that happened in between with more lucidity, wit,
wisdom, and poetry that is expected from 100 years of novelists,
let alone one man. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less
than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound,
meaningful, and meaningless in life."--William Kennedy,
New York Times Book Review
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