You must read it to experience the fantastically real world of Macondo, and the people who live there. Garcia Marquez' work "magical realism." There is no label to accurately describe the writing that gifted us with One Hundred Years Of Solitude. You will find yourself laughing out loud when you are not sobbing in sympathy with someone dying of heartbreak. From page one you will voyage with the most remarkably original cast of characters, through worlds of vibrant color, where the sun shines almost always - when not obscured by a four year downpour. Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years Of Solitude is the literary equivalent of a magic carpet ride, your own magic genii come to life, and Shaharazade's 101 tales wrapped into one brilliant, multilayered epic novel. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." ( Jump down to read a review of Living to Tell the Tale) ( Jump down to read a review of Love in the Time of Cholera)
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