One Hundred Years of Solitude
José Arcadio Buendía and his wife found the town of Macondo in a swamp clearing, and their descendants repeat the same handful of names and appetites for a century. Gypsies bring ice and magnets, civil war carries off one generation of Aurelianos after another, and a banana company brings a boom and a massacre. A family and a town conjured and consumed across generations; solitude repeating like prophecy.
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- influenced by ↑ The Hero Twins (Popol Vuh)
- influenced by ↑ The Metamorphosis
- influenced by ↑ One Thousand and One Nights
- companion to ↑ Leaf Storm
- ↓ Midnight's Children
- ↓ The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira
- ↓ The House of the Spirits
- ↓ Red Sorghum
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