One Hundred Years of Solitude International Writers

Author	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN	9780140157512
Publisher	Penguin Books
Manufacturer	Penguin Books

The novel tells the history of the Buendias family, who founded Macondo, a remote South American settlement. The world of the novel is full of magical realism, including a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb. It won the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature.

This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb. It won the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature.