Cien Años de Soledad (CD-Audio)

from jonbrammer

"Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages)would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish decipherin...

from Castlelass

Published in 1967, this sweeping saga is the story of a family and a fictional Colombian town. The patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, and his wife, Úrsula, leave their homeland, and travel over the mountains to establish Macondo, near the swampy coastland. The story follows the founders and their d...

from Cecrow

So long as its fantastic elements entertain more than frustrate you, you'll enjoy this book as much as I did. It took a few pages before I got my head around the 'magical realism' style, by which impossible events are related in precisely the same tone as the mundane. A tiny isolated village that...

from msf59

I now understand why this sprawling (a major understatement), multi-generational novel is considered a literary classic. If I rated it strictly on ambition and scope it would earn an A+. It is dazzling in that respect. There is much to admire in these dense pages, as we follow the same family liv...

from santhony

I recently read the author's acclaimed work "Love in the Time of Cholera" and enjoyed it very much. It spurred me to seek out more work by Marquez, hence this and several others that I recently purchased. Marquez's writing is certainly unique in its earthiness. He deals with such subjects as sex,...