{"product_id":"one-hundred-years-of-solitude","title":"One Hundred Years of Solitude","description":"                                            Famously associated with the term 'magical realism', Marquez is probably South America's most famous literary export\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn acknowledged masterpiece, this is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy with comic invention, \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel Garcia Marquez (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogota,   and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper \u003ci\u003eEl Espectador \u003c\/i\u003eand as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including \u003ci\u003eEyes of a Blue Dog \u003c\/i\u003e(1947), \u003ci\u003eLeaf Storm \u003c\/i\u003e(1955), \u003ci\u003eNo One Writes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eto the Colonel \u003c\/i\u003e(1958), \u003ci\u003eIn Evil Hour \u003c\/i\u003e(1962), \u003ci\u003eBig Mama's Funeral \u003c\/i\u003e(1962), \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude \u003c\/i\u003e(1967), \u003ci\u003eInnocent Erendira and Other Stories \u003c\/i\u003e(1972), \u003ci\u003eThe Autumn of the Patriarch \u003c\/i\u003e(1975), \u003ci\u003eChronicle of a Death Foretold \u003c\/i\u003e(1981), \u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera \u003c\/i\u003e(1985), \u003ci\u003eThe General in His Labyrinth \u003c\/i\u003e(1989), \u003ci\u003eStrange Pilgrims \u003c\/i\u003e(1992), \u003ci\u003eOf Love and Other Demons \u003c\/i\u003e(1994) and\u003ci\u003e Memories of My Melancholy Whores \u003c\/i\u003e(2005). Many of his books are\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003epublished by Penguin. He was awarded the \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n                                        ","brand":"One Hundred Years of Solitude","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42280923332799,"sku":"9780141184999","price":23.4,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/products\/9780141184999.jpg?v=1678949307","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/one-hundred-years-of-solitude","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}