Cien años de soledad
Gabriel García Márquez, 1967
Seven generations of the Buendía family in a town where magnets, ice and alchemy are real—and solitude runs in the blood.
Gabriel García Márquez
Heat, repetition and the strange: Gabriel García Márquez's prose moves like a slow afternoon where the miraculous and the ordinary share the same kitchen. Start with One Hundred Years of Solitude: a family and a town living through a century of wars, omens, loves and repetitions, told in prose where the impossible arrives like weather. People come to these books for their humour, their generous sentences and the sense that history is both personal and absurd.
Feels like family, wonder and solitude.
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García Márquez was raised by his grandparents in Aracataca, a Colombian banana town; his grandmother told ghost stories as ordinary news, a tone he made into Macondo.
A world so new that things must be pointed at, not named.
Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de veinte casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo. Todos los años, por el mes de marzo, una familia de gitanos desarrapados plantaba su carpa cerca de la aldea, y con un grande alboroto de pitos y timbales daban a conocer los nuevos inventos. Primero llevaron el imán. Books by Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez, 1967
A family and a town live through a century of wars, omens, loves and repetitions, told in prose where the impossible arrives like weather.
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