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One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Author
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Narrator
- Ben Onwukwe
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 2 February 2023
- Run Time
- 17 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'
Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book, and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny.
Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.
'Should be required reading for the entire human race' The New York Times
'The book that sort of saved my life' Emma Thompson
'No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing' Sunday Telegraph
© Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2007 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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The book that sort of saved my life
Emma Thompson
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The greatest novel in any language of the last 50 years
Salman Rushdie
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Should be required reading for the entire human race
New York Times
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Details
- Author
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Narrator
- Ben Onwukwe
- Duration
- 17 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 February 2023
- ISBN
- 9780241998502
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Magical realism, Classic fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation, Family saga / generational saga fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book, and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.'Should be required reading for the entire human race' The New York Times'The book that sort of saved my life' Emma Thompson 'No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing' Sunday Telegraph© Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2007 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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