Gabriel GarcIa MArquez was born in Colombia in 1927. His many books include “The Autumn of the Patriarch; No One Writes to the Colonel; Love in the Time of Cholera;” a memoir, “Living to Tell the Tale”; and, most recently, a novel, “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”. Gabriel GarcIa MArquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
Can a book change your life? I’m not sure it can. I think it can influence the way you think for a time, but it’s usually people and events that create change. However, a book that made me stop and think was One Hundred Years of Solitude.
One of the 20th century’s enduring works, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career.
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buend…