About the author
Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist whose fiction made him one of the central writers of the Latin American Boom. He received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
One Hundred Years of Solitude follows the Buendía family and Macondo through repeated names, civil wars, commerce, desire, ghosts, and forgetting. The novel's magical realism treats the impossible and the historical with the same narrative composure.
Where to start
Start with One Hundred Years of Solitude in Gregory Rabassa's translation, then try Chronicle of a Death Foretold for a shorter, tightly structured entry.
