About the Book: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the
haunting story of a community lost in the depths of that almighty continent
where time passes slowly. A poetic masterpiece whose rich and powerful language
easily survives the translation from Spanish, this is the most celebrated text
of magic realism. The mysterious history of the Buendía family of the village of
Macondo, which does nothing less than recapitulate the entire history of the
human race, has had an influence on world literature unsurpassed by that of any
other book of our era. In