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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Written by: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator
Narrated by: John Lee
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Includes a bonus PDF with a character chart!

One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.

The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.

Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

©1964 Gabriel García Márquez (P)2013 Blackstone Audio Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism
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Had to finish it by reading kindle edition. Lack of whyspersync and immersive reading features are big n, esp. for non-english speaking people like me. Please enable them at earliest.

Triggered the interest in Story

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A fascinating, surrealistic story, that is well translated. the mysticism is woven into ordinary happenings in a unique tapestry.

Powerful, Gripping

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Fabulous, as in like a fable, language, meandering through a magically real world, with ethereal events sharing space with the world we see around us through logic....

A magical epic...

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even though the narrator nicely narrates the story the quality of the audio is too poor and if you are listening using headphones it will give you headache after sometime.

The audiobook quality is too poor

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This book was on my watchlist for over a decade. Glad I picked it up! It was a euphoria filled with goosebumps going through the ending! Spoilers!
It narrates a tale a of town somewhere in Colombia inhabited by 7 generations of a family with solitary and tenacious personalities who endure misfortunes bought up by themselves.
There were several similarities to tales narrated in the Bible, idealogical wars, communism, incest horrors and prophecies. The tale begins really slow describing the day to day life and skipping years slowly giving the reader to associate the present with the past.
The ending of this narration makes into the top 5 reads ever.

Just pick it up and read it.

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