Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez

General Fiction

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the magical story of the Buend?a family, who love, lie, fight and rule for a century in Macondo, their settlement in the South American jungle. Part exotic paradise, part nightmare, Macondo is a fantastic world of miracles and mirages where nothing is as it seems. Its secrets lie hidden for years in an encoded book, and only Aureliano Buend?a, the last in the dynasty, can unlock its mysteries and discover the fate of this strange land ...