One Hundred Years of Solitude

In the mythical town of Macondo, time coils in circles and generations of the Buendía family are caught in a spell of love, loss, and prophecy. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a lyrical epic where magic bleeds into the everyday, and history repeats itself with tragic elegance. Through political revolutions, spectral visitations, and forbidden passions, the novel asks: can a family escape the fate woven into its name—or is solitude the inheritance of memory itself? Lush, surreal, and aching with beauty, this is a story where the past never dies and the future is already written in the stars.


  • Originally Published: 1967
  • Publisher : Penguin Books, 2024
  • Pages: 422
  • Genre: Novel, Magical Realism, Family saga, Epic Fiction
  • Book Type: Hardcopy
  • ISBN-13: 978-0241968581
  • Access: Members
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Author: Gabriel García Márquez

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ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
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‘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’

Gabriel García Márquez’s great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles. 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.

Blending 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.
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‘As steamy, dense and sensual as the jungle that surrounds the surreal town of Macondo!’ ~ Oprah, Featured in Oprah’s Book Club

‘Should be required reading for the entire human race’ ~ The New York Times

‘The book that sort of saved my life’ ~ Emma Thompson

‘No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez’s writing’ ~ Sunday Telegraph

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