One Hundred Years of Solitude

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By Gabriel García Márquez

The story of the Buendía family across seven generations, and of Macondo, the town José Arcadio Buendía founds in a swamp and which the world reaches slowly: first gypsies with ice and magnets, then a priest, then a railway, then a banana company, then soldiers.

Everything in it happens more than once, the family reuses the same few names, and nobody learns anything in time. The novel that made magical realism a category.

First published 1967