One Hundred Years of Solitude is a landmark 1967
novel by Colombian author Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez that tells the
multi-generational story of the BuendÃa family, whose patriarch, José
Arcadio BuendÃa, founded the town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as
one of the supreme achievements in literature.
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, which was stylistically influenced by Modernism and the Cuban
Vanguardia literary movement.