1. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) is
a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquezthat tells the multi-generational story of
the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the
metaphoric Colombia.
The widely acclaimed book, considered by many to be the author's masterpiece, was first published
in Spanish in 1967, and subsequently has been translated into thirty-seven languages and has sold
more than 30 million copies.[1][2][3]
The magical realiststyle and thematic substance of One Hundred
Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literaryLatin American
Boom of the 1960s and 1970s,[4]
which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and
North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Vanguard) literary movement.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
First edition
Author Gabriel García Márquez
Original title Cien años de soledad
Translator Gregory Rabassa
Country Colombia
2. Language Spanish
Genre Magic realism,novel
Publisher Harper & Row (US)
Jonathan Cape (UK)
Publication date 1967
Published in English 1970