One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years Of Solitude,is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world.The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death and a tragicomedy of humankind.In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful and tawdry story of the Buendia family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history and myths.
Love and lust, war and revolution, richness and poverty, youth and senility - the heterogeneity of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth - these universal themes dominate the novel. The author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez always writes with simplicity, ease and purity. Translated to dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.
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