One Hundred Years of Solitude.
by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Translated by Gregory Rabassa
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One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the life of Macondo, a fictional town based in part of Garcia Marquez's hometown of Aracataca, Columbia, and seven generations of the founding family, the Buendias. He creates a complex world with characters and events that display the full range of human experience. For the reader, the pleasure of the novel derives from its fast-paced narrative, humor, vivid characters, and fantasy elements. In this 'magic realism', the author combines imaginative flights of fancy with social realism to give us images of levitating priests, flying carpets, a four-year-long rainstorm, and a young woman ascending to heaven while folding sheets" (NYPL Books of the Century 31).
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- Raptis Rare Books (US)
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- 145926
- Title
- One Hundred Years of Solitude.
- Author
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Translated by Gregory Rabassa
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Gregory Rabassa First Edition
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