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EQUALLY TRAGIC, JOYFUL and comical, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa in Penguin Modern Classics. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built.

Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy with comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928) was born in Aracataca, Colombia.

He is the author of several novels, including Leaf Storm (1955), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. If you enjoyed One Hundred Years of Solitude, you might like Love in the Time of Cholera, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'With a single bound Gabriel Garcia Marquez leaps on the stage with Gunter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov ... dazzling'The New York Times

OM GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, född 6 mars 1927 i Aracataca i provinsen Magdalena i Colombia, död 17 april 2014 i Mexico City i Mexiko, var en colombiansk författare. Han tilldelades 1982 Nobelpriset i litteratur.

Han tillhör, jämte bland andra Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa och Carlos Fuentes, den generation latinamerikanska författare som slog igenom på 1960-talet under beteckningen 'el boom'. Hans mest berömda bok, Cien años de soledad (Hundra år av ensamhet, 1967), utspelar sig i byn Macondo, inspirerad av författarens födelseby Aracataca i norra Colombia. Dagens Aracataca är ett tynande samhälle, kvävt av hetta, fukt och damm. Byns förvandling under Banankompaniets framfart och den massaker på bananarbetare som skildras i boken har verklighetsbakgrund. Ämnet återkommer i flera andra av hans böcker, bland andra La hojarasca (Virvlande löv). (fr Wikipedia)



--- Tycker du om Gabriel Garcia Marquez kan du nog även vara intresserad av dessa författare: Milan Kundera, David Guterson, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Laura Esquivel, Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin, Michael Ondaatje, Umberto Eco, Virginia Woolf.