Cien Años de Soledad. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].

MáRQUEZ, ‎Gabriel García .

$350.00

Item Number: 126805

Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores, 1967.

First Círculo de Lectores edition of Márquez’s masterpiece. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the life of Macondo, a fictional town based in part of Garcia Marquez's hometown of Aracataca, Colombia, and seven generations of the founding family, the Buendias. He creates a complex world with characters and events that display the full range of human experience. For the reader, the pleasure of the novel derives from its fast-paced narrative, humor, vivid characters, and fantasy elements. In this 'magic realism', the author combines imaginative flights of fancy with social realism to give us images of levitating priests, flying carpets, a four-year-long rainstorm, and a young woman ascending to heaven while folding sheets" (NYPL Books of the Century 31).