One Hundred Years Of Solitude
$53.03
- Hardcover
416 pages
- Release Date
24 November 1995
Summary
In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the haunting story of a community lost in the depths of that almighty continent where time passes slowly. A poetic masterpiece whose rich and powerful language easily survives the translation from Spanish, this is the most celebrated text of magic realism, the literary movement which has dominated world fiction for the last thirty years.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152234 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152239 |
| Author: | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 1995 |
| Weight: | 536g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 132mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Concocted of quirks, ancient mysteries, family secrets and peculiar contradictions, it makes sense and gives pleasure in dozens of immediate ways. * The New York Times *
About The Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was born near Aracataca, Colombia. He was the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, and many other works of fiction and non-fiction. 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). He died in Mexico City at the age of 87.
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