Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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.
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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…
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Andrea Busfield recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
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.
Ben Farmer recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ratcheted up my expectations for what a novel should be.
Hilary Thayer Hamann recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
This is the next book I intend to read again as if for the first time.
Louise Penny recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
One of my top five.
Salman Rushdie recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
The book I would most want to read again for the first time.
Svoboda Therese recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
A book so true to a culture that it widened my own.
Sam Savage recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
This is a book worth reading more than once.
Mary Guterson recommends Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a book I’d wish I’d written.
James McManus recommends Love in the Time of Cholera
This is the book that I most want to read again for the first time.
Alice Randall recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
Steve Hamilton recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
Imagine picking up that book and having no idea what you’re about to experience.
Nic Brown recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
When I read the last line, my brain almost exploded. I can never put the pieces back together now.
Laurence Gonzales recommends One Hundred Years of Solitude
It’s one of those books that I had to put down as I read it, as if it were burning my hands.
David Corbett recommends Love in the Time of Cholera
Yes, I know, I should have read this years ago. Jim Harrison has written that what he wants is a fairy tale for adults. This qualifies. A brilliant, odd, whimsical, poignant, sad, fascinating, profound and triumphantly human book. Not even Oprah’s imprimatur could spoil it.
