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One Hundred Years of Solitude Slipcased Edition

One Hundred Years of Solitude Slipcased Edition

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hardback
Publication Date: 28/10/2014

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One of the twentieth century's most beloved and acclaimed novels, available in a special limited slip-cased edition.

In 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude launched Gabriel Garc a M rquez to international fame, and cemented his reputation as a literary legend. A central figure in the Latin Boom, Garc a M rquez was the most celebrated practitioner of the literary style that has become known as magic realism, and in 1982, received the highest literary achievement: the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda called One Hundred Years of Solitude, "the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Don Quixote of Cervantes." In the New York Times legendary critic John Leonard proclaimed, "with a single bound, Gabriel Garc a M rquez leaps onto the stage with G nter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov." And writer William Kennedy has hailed Garc a M rquez's masterpiece as, "the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. Mr. Garc a M rquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life."

Over four decades after its publication, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains one of the most beloved and venerated books in world literature. A rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, it tells the story of the mythical town of Macondo through the lives of seven generations of the doomed Buend a family. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buend as, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.

Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude interweaves the political, personal, and spiritual, bringing a new consciousness to storytelling; this radiant work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.

This special edition is a re-designed jacketed hardcover featuring colored endpapers in a beautiful, elegant slipcase.
ISBN:
9780062380449
9780062380449
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
28-10-2014
Publisher:
Harper
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
432
Dimensions (mm):
246x162x39mm
Weight:
0.76kg
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Living to Tell the Tale, among other works of fiction and non-fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

He lives in Mexico City. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on 6 March 1927 in Aractaca, Colombia, and died on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City, aged 87. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for a body of work that includes novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories.

His most famous works include Leaf Storm (1955), In Evil Hour (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), 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), News of a Kidnapping (1996), Living to Tell the Tale (2002) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004).

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