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One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
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Brought to you by Penguin.

ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'

Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book, and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny.

Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.

'Should be required reading for the entire human race' The New York Times

'The book that sort of saved my life' Emma Thompson

'No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing' Sunday Telegraph

© Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2007 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

 Classics Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magic Magical Realism World Literature

Critic reviews

The book that sort of saved my life (Emma Thompson)
The greatest novel in any language of the last 50 years (Salman Rushdie)
Should be required reading for the entire human race
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What a load of old twaddle, jibber jabber, rambling balderdash. 15 hours of my life I’ll never get back. Utter and complete nonsense. I deserve a golden fish medal for putting up with this book. Well done to the narrator though.

Updates. Sorry 17 hours and 56 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.

Gibbering nonsense

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The reader does a decent job with one notable exception: although all characters are basically named the same, the reader manages to mispronounce their names repeatedly. It would have been nice to master the Spanish pronunciation of the names before actually reading for the final version, it's really not that hard.. Very annoying.

great story, remarkably written

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This is The Greatest book ever written, prodigious as Bible in form, content, and poetry

A history of entire humanity

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the narrator's exaggerated pronunciation of names was simply exhausting. Better off getting a hard copy

a beautiful book with a terrible narration

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Gave up on this book. A lot of rambling and hard to find an actual story.

Tedious

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