Literary
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Bestseller: about 50 million copies (estimate)Seven generations of the Buendia family live and die in the isolated town of Macondo, where miracles, plagues, wars and repeating names blur together in a dreamlike chronicle of rise and fall.
- First published
- 1967
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a landmark of magical realism and don't mind a huge cast with similar names.
Skip this if you want a clear, linear plot or struggle to track a sprawling family tree.
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