One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez draws inspiration from the history of his hometown, in coastal Colombia. It shows the rise and fall of the Buendía family over seven generations in the fictional town of Macondo where ghosts linger in the trees, the dead and the living mingle, and time is as fluid as memory. It’s a story about everything from power, passion, violence, betrayal and the revolving loop of history. In this book, Márquez creates a world so intricate and so alive that when you close the book, you half expect to find Macondo somewhere on a map. It’s the book that has not only inspired a major part of Latin-American but global literature as a whole. Source: Forbes

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