One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Narrated by:
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John Lee
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Written by:
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Gabriel García Márquez
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Gregory Rabassa - translator
About this listen
Includes a bonus PDF with a character chart!
One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
©1964 Gabriel García Márquez (P)2013 Blackstone AudioWhat listeners say about One Hundred Years of Solitude
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-07-20
Powerful, Gripping
A fascinating, surrealistic story, that is well translated. the mysticism is woven into ordinary happenings in a unique tapestry.
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- Aditya
- 05-05-20
Loved it!
The narrator breathes life into Marquéz's words perhaps exactly as he wished. It was truly an experience to remember.
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- Aritra B.
- 24-08-20
A magical epic...
Fabulous, as in like a fable, language, meandering through a magically real world, with ethereal events sharing space with the world we see around us through logic....
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- Aditya Prasad N
- 21-04-20
Just pick it up and read it.
This book was on my watchlist for over a decade. Glad I picked it up! It was a euphoria filled with goosebumps going through the ending! Spoilers!
It narrates a tale a of town somewhere in Colombia inhabited by 7 generations of a family with solitary and tenacious personalities who endure misfortunes bought up by themselves.
There were several similarities to tales narrated in the Bible, idealogical wars, communism, incest horrors and prophecies. The tale begins really slow describing the day to day life and skipping years slowly giving the reader to associate the present with the past.
The ending of this narration makes into the top 5 reads ever.
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- RaviJ
- 26-12-19
Triggered the interest in Story
Had to finish it by reading kindle edition. Lack of whyspersync and immersive reading features are big n, esp. for non-english speaking people like me. Please enable them at earliest.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-05-20
Mesmerizing journey through seven generations
Sheer literary genius, weaving trivial and extraordinary events with equal versatility. The narrator has made the experience even more unforgettable!
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- Ashwini Gangal
- 16-02-21
Gorgeous book!
Magical, surreal, beautiful, mad - a literary orgasm. Brilliantly translated and narrated. What a wonderful, mad book. I highly recommend it to readers looking for an immersive, transportive experience. Fallen in love with this author.
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- Pratyush
- 28-10-19
Heartbreaking tale of generations!
Spanning several generations, this is a beautiful tale of obsessions, of war and its consequences, and of lust. An amazing literary work.
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- Lunatica
- 08-05-20
A Really Short Review
A Ted Ed directed me here one day to a novel with seven generations.
The novel's adundant characters remind me of Mahabharat, funnily enough the tragedies and wrong decisions made by the members seem so too.
I didn't actually read the book, i was enjoying the amazing audiobook by Audible. I had audible for 2 months and this was my first purchase there.
(SPOILERS MIGHT BE THERE)
Coming to the book, beginning with the passion what i enjoyed were
:Between MEME and MAURICIO,
:Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano
:Rebacca and Arcadio
I really enjoyed the end and how the palms turned out.
The characters i enjoyed:
• Rebecca
• Remedios
• Remedios the Beauty
I enjoyed the audiobook in breaks in the tormenting times of COVID for over a month.
The book was read by John Lee and sounded so good, specially the acting out of the ladies and old people.
I found the intricacy of normal life being woven into the towel of time, magnificent.
I will highly recommend this book to all people who are into complicated stuffs about life.
I probably will read 'Love in times of cholera' because i completely enjoyed the way the story unfolded.
Learnt about:
•Magical realism
•How time can be denoted differently, in a cycle... '''circle of life''' plays in background
•How many characters can be fun? I remember not being able to read Enid Blyton's famous five because of too many names as a teen (laughs at my foolishness)
TIP: Keep looking at the family tree of the Buendía family. You may be needing it because names keep on repeating.
Videos i recommend watching before reading it:
https://youtu.be/B2zhLYz4pYo
https://youtu.be/YWNcCs__vQg
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- Animesh Priyadarshi
- 12-10-23
A unique experience!
The narration has been top notch but a bit too fast for me. The story is a very unique one I had never had any experience before this. Magical realism is what they say it to be! I experienced the magic right through the book as the story of inception, conception, birth, rise and fall of a small civilization of Mocondo in the backdrop of historical wars and colonization unfolded. A deserving candidate for Nobel of literature awarded to the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Amazing!
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