One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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9780141181400: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)

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ISBN 10: 0141181400 ISBN 13: 9780141181400

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1999

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From the moment Melquiades the Gipsy walks into the jungle settlement of Macondo nothing is ever the same again. He brings to this protected Eden knowledge and the tools of discovery. With them the Patriarch Jose Buendia painstakingly re-invents man's seminal discoveries. The only time his wife, Ursula, loses patience with him is when he discovers that the world is round like an orange. This phantasmagorical novel is a modern parable told without moralising: its genius lies not only in making us laugh at the human precedent, but in making us laugh in sympathy.

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About the Author:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.

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