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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Binding: Paperback
Published: 20 January, 2004
ISBN: 0060740450
$11.20
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.9 / 5.0 
Existence Is The Word: 
By now, of course, the entire world is familiar with this stellar masterpiece that introduced Latin American literature to North American readers (last to join an already buzzing worldwide readership). The work has been translated even into languages like Quich?, Guaran? and Catal?n. This unusual tale depicts the origins and ultimate demise of the mythical town of Macondo through the saga of the enigmatic Buend?a family. In this richly symbolic and multilayered chronicle of life... more info
Read it in spite of Oprah.:
(...) I'm equally put off by this great novel's appearance in Oprah's cadre of mass market bestsellers, leisure reading, and fodder for housewives desperate for an escape, but consider this: Nobel winners rarely receive their prize for writing shlock.
Unless you're fairly literate, the book will be a plod through a molasses-filled wading pool for you. Read it only if you appreciate richly-textured, image-saturated prose - moving beyond belief - compelling vignettes and characters of immense complexity and... more info
One Hundred Years of Solitude, or Destination of man kind?:
Far from being a novel yet a bible in the context of human history, this book tells much to all man kind. Once you finish the book, you would realize you're always alone even if you're living in a metropolis.
The book is a story of a family who has lived in Macondo for about hundred years. The family started with mischief, which prevailed the fate of the family. But the family and Macondo vanished from the Earth when a baby was born with a pig tail.
Bible tells about God's love towards human being; the... more info
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