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	• Cien años de soledad: Edición conmemorativa (The 40th Anniversary Edition) Gabriel Garcia Marquez Santillana USA Publishing Co., 2007 - 756 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Cien Anos de Soledad

Gabriel Garcia Marques' best work. Romance, history, and fantasy combined. A must have.

soldado de soledad

Nice spanish-language edition of Garcia Marquez's classic. Informative sections inside. Note that although this is a hardcover, it does not come with a dust jacket. The image of its cover is attached to the hardcover itself.

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Excelente libro

Este es un excelente libro. Gabo en su total esplendor. Una vez que lo comienzas a leer no podrás dejarlo.

A masterpice beautifully reprintedI have

Leí este libro hace anos cuando primero fue publicado y lo he regalado varias veces a mis amigos. Es un
libro que quiero en mi biblioteca personal y esdta nueva edición es un tesoro, el texto y los comentarios.

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I don't know how one writer can have so many ideas

In this, his magnum opus detailing the historical arc of the Buendia family in the fictional near-Caribbean town of Macondo, Marquez is stupefyingly inventive and constantly violates the basic storytelling principle of "show, don't tell." That's a good thing, because if he didn't a book where so much happens would be three thousand pages long, in which case I wouldn't have the stamina to read it in the original. Reading alternately in Spanish and English, I found that, in addition to increasing my vocabulary of fancypants literary Spanish by scads of rarely useful words that I've mostly forgotten since, I kept thinking, "Well I thought I was following what was going on pretty well, but what I think just happened is too weird to make sense, so I must be wrong." But then I'd read the English version to find out that yes, everyone in town *had* fallen ill with a variety of insomnia causing progressive amnesia, or that an orphan girl *had* shown up at the house with a bag bearing the incessant jumping and clicking bones of her parents, or whatever. That's magical realism for you.

I wasn't very good with literary Spanish when I started, but Marquez consistently rewarded my slow, dogged efforts to understand what was going on by putting something funny or amazing in almost every paragraph. At first I found it infuriating that he decided to only use two first names for all the generations of male members of the Buendia family, but I gradually got used to it. The only thing that bothered me a bit in the end was that he spent so much time on the clan's long, circling decline into the dust, and I didn't enjoy inhabiting their lingering, interminable decrepitude quite so much as some others apparently have.

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The Real Academia EspaÃ±ola celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Garcia Marquez s masterpiece in this beautiful commemorative edition. Prologues by Carlos Fuentes, Alvaro Mutis, Mario Vargas Llosa and other intellectuals. One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. -New York Times Book Review

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