One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez


                   The best book in the history of mankind. This is one book in which you would spend time even without realizing it. Filled with the elements of magical realism, a literary style in which unnatural things happen in the most natural way. Prose is wonderful and urges you to read and reread the content again and again. The story revolves around a town called Macondo and its inhabitants. Goes in detail about the Buendia Family and the changes which they face in course of time. Takes you through the period of civil war in Latin America and its impact on the the people in Macondo. Maconda is magical and imaginary. But one thing which people look forward every year is the arrival of gypsies with the news on inventions from outside world. Melquaides, the gypsy stays behind and leaves a parchment with the Buendia family, which no one can decipher until it attains one hundred years of solitude.

                A beautiful read....


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