One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature

‘Perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes.’
—Pablo Neruda

‘An extraordinary novel, a work of obsessional originality...García Márquez’s hypnotic history of his Buendías family, founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement, is a charged chronicle of fantasy and realism... Farce and laughter vein his world... Márquez is a poet nearly, a seer, an alchemist... A tour de force, enchanting, convoluted and barbarous.’
— The Times Educational Supplement

‘Reality and fantasy are indistinguishable: a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, a cloud of yellow flowers, an iguana in a woman’s womb, are more real than guerrilla coups, banana company massacres, and the coming of the steam-engine... As an experience it is enormously, kaleidoscopically, mysteriously alive.’
—Guardian

‘You emerge from this marvellous novel as if from a dream, the mind on fire: with a single bound García Márquez leaps on to the stage with Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov, his appetites as enormous as his imagination, his fatalism greater than either. Dazzling.’
— The New York Times

‘One of a glittering constellation of contemporary Latin American novelists... He is the author of a classic on the grandest scale...the most obvious comparison is with Homer’s Odyssey… García Márquez is a spellbinder.’
—Spectator