“The first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.”

“More lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from one hundred years of novelists, let alone one man.”

“García Márquez feeds the mind’s eye nonstop…Like the jungle itself, this novel comes back again and again, fecund, savage, and irresistible.”

“Unofficially, it’s everybody’s favorite work of world literature and the novel that, more than any other since World War II, has inspired novelists of our time…sexy, entertaining, experimental, politically radical, and wildly popular all at once.”

“Narrator
John Lee pulls listeners into this enchanting and mystical tale, often
described as the quintessential Latin American novel…Listeners will enjoy Lee’s
enticing images of gypsies’ flying carpets and conversational ghosts,
and embrace Lee’s solemnity as he describes the soldier patriarch who
lost thirty-two consecutive wars and the children born with pigs’ tails. Soon,
one is entwined in Márquez’s magical world.”

“My
favorite novels are extended songs. What is One
Hundred Years of Solitude if not an opera? And a grand one at that!”

“[One Hundred Years of Solitude] stands at the apex of twentieth-century literature.”

“If Senor Garcia-Marquez’ book is fable, it is also satire with some of the fanciful giantism of earlier proponents…A luxuriant, splendid, and spirited conception.”