"Tragi-comic, acerbic, supernatural and ... superbly intensely and readable"
--TIME OUT
’No discussion of late twentieth-century fiction can ignore the influence and abiding power of One Hundred Years of Solitude’
--DAILY TELEGRAPH
One Hundred Years of’Solitude tells the magical story of the Buendia 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 Buendia, the last in the dynasty, can unlock its mysteries and discover the fate of this strange land ...