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One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
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About this listen

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.

©2007 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (P)2023 Penguin Audio Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magic Magical Realism World Literature

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Critic reviews

"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)
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Just a wonderful book that gets better with each listen, i found the narrator to be super engaging and able to bring the characters to life.

Beautiful story with excellent imagery

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Honestly some of the most beautiful word sequencing I’ve ever read. It was such a beautiful book.

No idea what the story is about but I loved every second of it

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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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A beautiful sorrowful masterpiece on the human condition, family life , history and magical fantasy interwoven through character story arc’s

Great work/ book

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Title says it all. A story for the ages. Makes you think about your own family.

As weird as you’ve heard

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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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Hard to follow the plot, flits around and with the names of the characters being so similar it was very easy to get lost in the story.

Tough read

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I read this book in the 1980s and found it hard work and didn’t enjoy it. I often wondered why so I gave the audible version a go. I accept it is incredibly well written but it really is not my thing.

Too prosaic for my tastes

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The narration was great, would recommend this version! I’ve been waiting for this edition and it definitely didn’t disappoint

Excellent

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Take your time with this and I recomend to bring out a chart of the family tree to look at now and then while you listen. There's alot of names and stories to keep track on but if you take your time and look up the family tree and just enjoy the many small stories within this whole story it's truly an unique and memorable experience. I love this book!

Take your time

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