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One hundred years of solitude

The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendias.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014-
Other Authors:	Rabassa, Gregory
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	New York : HarperCollins, 2003.
Edition:	1st [HarperCollins] ed.
Subjects:	Macondo (Imaginary place) > Fiction. Latin America > Social conditions > Fiction. Epic fiction.
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Summary:	The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendias.
Item Description:	"First published in hardcover in the United States in 1970 by Harper and Row"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:	417 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	006112009X 9780061120091 0060531045 9780060531041
Author Notes:	Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. After studying law and journalism at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, he became a journalist. In 1965, he left journalism, to devote himself to writing. His works included Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, The Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Clandestine in Chile, and the memoir Living to Tell the Tale. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography)