One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Enchanting’ The Times Literary Supplement ‘A masterpiece and one of the undeniable classics of the century’ The Times Educational Supplement

I think Márquez has influenced the world’ Carolina Herrera ‘It’s the most magical book I have ever read. ‘The book that sort of saved my life’ Emma Thompson ‘It’s so much fun to read, unexpected and beautiful’ Darryl Hannah ‘No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez’s writing’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Should be required reading for the entire human race’ New York Times ‘The most important writer of fiction in any language’ Bill Clinton ‘The greatest novel in any language of the last 50 years’ Salman Rushdie Gabriel García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Many of his books are published by Penguin. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writes to the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama’s Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York.

Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez