One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
"Macondo: one town, one family, one hundred years of magic and ruin."
José Arcadio Buendía founds a town in the jungle, and six generations later his line ends where prophecy said it would. Ghosts linger, insomnia plagues, beauty ascends to heaven with the laundry — and Latin American literature is never the same. The definitive novel of magical realism.
Worth knowing
García Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature; adapted as a lavish Netflix series in 2024.
