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One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator
Narrated by: John Lee
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One of the twentieth 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 Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía 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. 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 account of the history of the human race.

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©1964 Gabriel García Márquez (P)2013 Blackstone Audio
Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Fantasy Magic
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i get why people love it, but I likewise didn't. I found it tedious and long-winded. Being conscious of sounding unsophisticated, I read for the pleasure of reading. Whether that is for the tale, the prose or the imagination of the writing, I love books for a thousand reasons, but mostly I love books for where they take me. Although this book took me to a wonderful place it seems to have gotten stuck there and I felt on a treadmill, biding my time to get off and towelling down. I've seen this book named as the best of all time - for me it may make top 200, but to me it's not a shadow on the likes of the French romantics or some of the British Victorian books. I feel like I should apologies, but it was to me, just OK....

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I had to slow it down to 0.8 x as the narration is incredible fast. Otherwise, I great book and fantastic narration.

A good job you can adjust playback speed.

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I found it very hard to get into this book and almost gave up but I’ve never given up on a book so persevered. In the end I enjoyed it.
This story is a multi-generational family saga, historical fiction, magic realism, epic fiction: this novel is everything. I feel like I have so much to say, like the fictional town of Macondo, the arrival of gypsies which blurs the genre line between reality and magic, the strongest Ursula Iguaran who is the most sensible person in the novel, the plague of insomnia and amnesia, civil war which is an important event in Latin American history, the unrequited love of Meme and Mauricio. Perhaps the difficulty that some people experience in reading the novel arises from the exposure to a new genre, magic realism and its distinctive characteristics.
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Perseverance required its “Aargh & wow” in one book!

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I loved the story but I really struggled with the narration. It felt like he was executing each sentence rather than caressing it along.

A classic, engaging but hard to listen too

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This is a story about a magical family. A saga that spans generations with snippets of their lives that will make you feel that you are not too different from them some 300 years ago...

A truly magical book

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