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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.

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Leigh Kramer
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Michael Rothfeld
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