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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has a gift for mingling the fantastic with the true in a way that makes the two indistinguishable. So it is that the gypsy Melquiades returns from death "because he could not bear the solitude." And so it is that it rained in the town for "four years, eleven months, and two days." The story focuses on the family of José Arcadio Buendía and his wife Ursula, but the real protagonist is the town that Buendía founds, Macondo. It is a living, breathing entity that binds the generations of Buendia's family together through the 100 years of solitude. Quiet, joyous, magical, tragic -- that is Macondo and the people who lived there. Gregory Rabassa's translation is good, but this, as with others by Marquez, is best read in the original Spanish. The lyrical beauty of the language suits the story better than English ever can.  (LINK)

- Leslie Leite

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