One Hundred Years of Solitude

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A best seller and critical success in Latin America Europe and the United States One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall birth and death of teh mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and billiant chronicle of life and death and the tragicomedy of man. In the noble ridiculous beautiful and tawdry story of the Buendia family one sees all mankind just as in the history myths growth and decay of Macondo one sees all of Latin America.Love and lust war and revolution reiches and poverty youth and senility--the variety of life the endlessness fo death the search for peace and truth--these the universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government Garcia Marquez always writes with the simplicity ease and purity that are the mark fo a master. Inventive amusing magnetic sad alive with unforgettale men