One Hundred Years of Solitude

　　One of the 20th century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.

　　The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendia family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.

　　Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel Garcia Marquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master.

　　Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.

　　馬奎斯的魔幻之筆，創造出一個光怪陸離的布恩迪亞家族，籠罩在南美的殖民地氛圍下，家族六代因權力與情欲的輪迴上演興衰起落，其中偏執而鮮明的人物，促成一幕幕驚奇的情節發展，更添全書的戲劇性。此部作品讓虛構的馬康多鎮栩栩如畫，出版至今銷售超過五百萬冊，在獲得諾貝爾文學獎前就擄獲得無數普羅大眾的心，更影響著全球各地創作者的文學視野，是魔幻寫實文學的經典作品。

作者簡介

賈西亞．馬奎斯(Garcia Marquez)

　　1928年生在哥倫比亞佳樂比海岸一個叫雅拉卡塔卡小鎮上。1982年榮獲諾貝爾文學獎。