Books

Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near fine copy (slight rubbing to base of spine) in a near fine, second-state dust jacket (mild rubbing to a couple of the jacket edges; a period at the end of the first paragrph on the front, inner flap of the jacket). Mylar protected. Signed by Gregory Rabassa on the title page. Garcia Marquez once claimed that this English translation is better than the original in Spanish and called Rabassa "the best Latin American writer in the English language.".

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, and it is considered Márquez's magnum opus.