One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Author Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrator John Lee
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 28 January 2014
- Run Time 14 hours and 3 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Family life fiction, Fantasy, Fiction: general and literary, Magical realism.
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What to expect
Now a Netflix series adaptation starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, and Marco González
One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Critics Review
u201cThe first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.u201d
nu201cMore lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from one hundred years of novelists, let alone one man.u201d
nu201cGarcu00eda Mu00e1rquez feeds the mindu2019s eye nonstopu2026Like the jungle itself, this novel comes back again and again, fecund, savage, and irresistible.u201d
nu201cUnofficially, itu2019s everybodyu2019s favorite work of world literature and the novel that, more than any other since World War II, has inspired novelists of our timeu2026sexy, entertaining, experimental, politically radical, and wildly popular all at once.u201d
u201cNarratorn John Lee pulls listeners into this enchanting and mystical tale, often ndescribed as the quintessential Latin American novelu2026Listeners will enjoy Leeu2019s nenticing images of gypsiesu2019 flying carpets and conversational ghosts, nand embrace Leeu2019s solemnity as he describes the soldier patriarch who nlost thirty-two consecutive wars and the children born with pigsu2019 tails. Soon, none is entwined in Mu00e1rquezu2019s magical world.u201d
u201cMynfavorite novels are extended songs. What is OnenHundred Years of Solitude if not an opera? And a grand one at that!u201d
u201c[One Hundred Years of Solitude] stands at the apex of twentieth-century literature.u201d
nu201cIf Senor Garcia-Marquezu2019 book is fable, it is also satire with some of the fanciful giantism of earlier proponentsu2026A luxuriant, splendid, and spirited conception.u201d
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| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
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| Narrator | John Lee |
| Duration | 14 hours and 3 minutes |
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| ISBN | 9781483086866 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Genre | Classic fiction, Family life fiction, Fantasy, Fiction: general and literary, Magical realism |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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