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New York, Harper & Row, 1970. . First edition in English; 8vo; internally fine; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, green endpapers, spine ends slightly bumped, with the unclipped first issue dust-jacket, some rubbing to extremities, a couple of short closed tears to top edge of rear panel, else very good. Regarded as Garcia Marquez's masterpiece (the novel was originally published in 1967 as Cien Años De Solidad) which won the author worldwide recognition and four international literary prizes. Written in a period of 18 months where the author locked himself away and created his 'magic realist' tale surrounding the life of the Buendîa family in Macondo.

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.