{"product_id":"9780060883287","title":"One Hundred Years of Solitude","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life.\" —William Kennedy, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book\u003c\/em\u003e Review \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most influential literary works of our time, \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitud\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ee \u003c\/em\u003eis the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. It takes up not long after Genesis left off and carries through to the air age, reporting on everything that happened in between with more lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry that is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man. . . . Mr. García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life.”\u003cbr\u003e“More lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAt 50 years old, García Márquez's masterpiece is as important as ever. . . To experience a towering work like \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e is to be reminded of the humility we should all feel when trying to assert what is true and what is false.”\u003cbr\u003e\"An irresistible work of storytelling, mixing the magic of the fairy tale, the realistic detail of the domestic novel and the breadth of the family saga.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e“One Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e is substantive and substantial, and its prose precise for the simple reason that its sentences are too exquisite to be inessential. It is a novel on which is bestowed the laurels usually awarded to great works of frugal prose. Yet its genius is in the operatic telling.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e offers plenty of reflections on loneliness and the passing of time. It can also be seen as a caustic commentary on the evils of war, or a warm appreciation of familial bonds. García Márquez has urgent things to say that still feel close to home, 50 years after the book was first published.”\u003cbr\u003e“One of the seminal works of 20th century Latin American fiction, it is a classic.”\u003cbr\u003e“Fecund, savage, irresistible. . . . In all their loves, madness, and wars, their alliances, compromises, dreams and deaths...the characters rear up large and rippling with life against the green pressure of nature itself.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780060883287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41099141710030,"sku":"9780060883287","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780060883287.jpg?v=1649392275","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780060883287","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}