One Hundred Years of Solitude (Perennial Classics) - Softcover

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060929790 ISBN 13: 9780060929794

Publisher: Perennial, 1998

Synopsis

A band of adventurers find a town in the heart of the South American jungle. Their leader is Jose Arcadio Buendia, the town is called Macondo. The occasion marks the beginning: of the world, of a great family, and of a century of extraordinary events.

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Review:

"Each attractive volume presents recent essays by noted critics who examine in detail aspects of a single literary work...Highly recommended for academic collections."

About the Author:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia.Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Garcia Marquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since he passed away in April 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0060929790
• ISBN 13: 9780060929794
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 458