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One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa, published by Jonathan Cape in 1973 - a reprint of the first British edition of 1970. Signed by the author,on the half title page 'To David, from his friend Gabriel, 1975'. Jacket design by Toni Evora. Dustjacket is not price clipped. The book was considered 'A comic masterpiece and certainly one of Latin America's finest novels to date' (Times Literary supplement) . It tells of a band of adventurers who found a town in the South American jungle called Macondo.The discovery marks the'. beginning of a century of extraordinary events.' 'Garcia Marquez gives us a world that is.exotic, primal, magical and real at the same time. .Macondo passes from a state of innocence.to that of restless post- Eden.' The condition of the book is very good. Would be near-fine except for very slight foxing to outside page edges and spots of fading to the deep pink colour of the top page edges.The binding is tight and square. the boards are very slightly bumped at corners and spine. The dustwrapper is likewise very good with light crumpling to the very top edge, a small scuff to one corner and small pink stain to the top of the flaps, inside.

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.