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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Book • 1967
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of seven generations of the Buendía family, founders of the fictional town of Macondo.
The novel spans a hundred years of turbulent Latin American history, from the postcolonial 1820s to the 1920s.
It is a tale of love, loss, and the cyclical nature of history, filled with magical realism that blends the supernatural with the ordinary.
The story follows the family's experiences, including civil war, marriages, births, and deaths, and explores themes such as solitude, fate, and the inevitability of repetition in history.
The novel is renowned for its narrative style and its influence on the literary movement known as the Latin American Boom.
The novel spans a hundred years of turbulent Latin American history, from the postcolonial 1820s to the 1920s.
It is a tale of love, loss, and the cyclical nature of history, filled with magical realism that blends the supernatural with the ordinary.
The story follows the family's experiences, including civil war, marriages, births, and deaths, and explores themes such as solitude, fate, and the inevitability of repetition in history.
The novel is renowned for its narrative style and its influence on the literary movement known as the Latin American Boom.
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as another example of a dream-state evoking novel.


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as an example of a writer whose work is exceptionally beautiful but might not appeal to contemporary readers due to its complexity.

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as an example of a book with a great first line, a Nobel-winning masterpiece.


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as a book he loves and has read multiple times.

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as a novel that had knocked him out.


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as a book that influenced his writing about the erasure of memory from collective history.

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as a book that was widely read during a specific period.


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as a book she disliked, finding it a painful and slow read despite enjoying magical realism.

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