One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Now a Netflix original series)

"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. . . . García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life." —William Kennedy, National Observer

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

Review

“You emerge from this marvelous novel as if from a dream, the mind on fire. . . . With a single bound, Gabriel García Márquez leaps onto the stage with Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov, his appetite as enormous as his imagination, his fatalism greater than either. Dazzling.” — John Leonard, New York Times

“At 50 years old, García Márquez'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 of the seminal works of 20th century Latin American fiction, it is a classic.” — Variety

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reprint edition (February 21, 2006)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 417 pages

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780060883287

Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1410L

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.05 x 5.35 x 1.09 inches