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One hundred years of solitude

The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of hu...

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Main Author: García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 (Author)
Other Authors: Lee, John Rafter (Narrator), Rabassa, Gregory (Translator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Spanish
Published: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2014]
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Macondo (Imaginary place) > Fiction.
Latin America > Social conditions > Fiction.
Epic fiction.
Audiobooks.
Summary: The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
Item Description: Translation of: Cien años de soledad.
Originally issued as a book: New York : Harper & Row, 1970.
Translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Compact discs.
Duration: 14:00:00.
"Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container.
Physical Description: 12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781482939682
1482939681
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.

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