One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Original title: Cien años de soledad. Translated into English in 1970.

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a truth and understanding that strike the soul. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of the art of fiction, and is considered one of the greatest works of fiction of the Twentieth-Century.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (born 1927) is a Colombian novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. He is one of Latin America's most famous writers. He has achieved critical acclaim and commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism.

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