One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family across seven generations in the imaginary town of Macondo, which they found and which slowly rises and falls with them. Ghosts, prophecies, and impossible events sit beside births, wars, and love affairs as though all were equally ordinary. The novel became the defining work of magical realism, and its blend of the mythic and the everyday reshaped modern fiction around the world.