Top 30 Modern Classics - VIII

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude, written by the Colombian author in spanish, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was published in 1967. The book has been subsequently translated to more than 40 languages.

It is the story of seven generations of the Buendía Family in the town of Macondo. José Arcadio Buendía, and Úrsula Iguarán, his wife, leave their home to find a better life and a new home. One night of their emigration journey, while camping on a riverbank, José Arcadio Buendía dreams of "Macondo", a city of mirrors that reflected the world in and about it. Upon awakening, he decides to establish Macondo at the river side.

Soon after its foundation, Macondo becomes a town frequented by unusual and extraordinary events that involve the generations of the Buendía family, who are unable or unwilling to escape their periodic misfortunes. Ultimately, a hurricane destroys Macondo, the city of mirrors; just the cyclical turmoil inherent to Macondo. At the end of the story, a Buendía man deciphers an encryption that generations of Buendía family men had failed to decode. The secret message informed the recipient of every fortune and misfortune lived by the Buendía Family generations

A masterpiece.

Namaste

Prabir