One Hundred Years of Solitude (Folio Society Edition)

This is no ordinary novel. Dip into the reviews since One Hundred Years of Solitude was first published in 1967, and you will find acclaim more appropriate to a sacred text than to a work of fiction. 'The greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes' (Pablo Neruda); 'the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race' (New York Times Book Review). Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece - the first Latin American novel to gain admiration from the Western literary establishment - has entranced and touched the souls of millions. It is a weird and wonderful odyssey, an intoxicating kaleidoscope of unforgettable characters and phantasmagorical events. From the very first page, when the travelling gypsy Melquíades arrives in the village of Macondo, the reader is swept breathlessly up into the passions, triumphs and disasters of seven generations of the Buendía family. The pace is relentless, the imagination dazzling, the thrills immediate. Here you will find love, desire, war, insanity, magic and revolution, comedy and tragedy. Here you will find ghostly Spanish galleons moored in the middle of forests, suicides that defy the laws of physics, an orphan girl who eats earth and spreads a plague of insomnia. Blending myth, allegory and folklore with powerful storytelling, One Hundred Years of Solitude is indisputably one of the greatest books of the 20th century, by 'one of the greatest living storytellers' (Time). 416 Pages; Frontispiece and 8 full-page color illustrations by Neil Packer; Size 10" x 6¼".

Author(s): Gabriel García Márquez  

ISBN 10: 1400661064
ISBN 13: 9781400661060
Format: Hardcover