Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Like the stories that animate them, these vagabonds are strange pilgrims, all Latin American, transported to the four corners of an unusual Europe, on adventures where magic and humor are articulated by what Gabriel García Márquez considers essential to the construction of this work: the perspective of time. "I believe I have thus succeeded in creating the book of tales that comes closest to the one I always wanted to write," the author tells us. With its captivating beauty, the strength and narrative power of its heroes, Twelve Vagabond Tales is a marvelously accomplished book, imbued with a tragic dimension that gives it the breath of great literature.

In Macondo, a small, isolated village in South America, the illustrious Buendia family is condemned to one hundred years of solitude by the prophecy of the gypsy Melquiades... In a whirlwind of revolutions, civil wars, plagues and destruction, they live a mythical epic, with an unforgettable flavor, which traverses the three ages of life: birth, life and decadence... This breathtaking novel is a masterpiece of the 20th century.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece and certainly one of the best Latin American novels to date."
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