One Hundred Years of Solitude

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." With these words – as famous now as the opening lines of Don Quixote or In Search of Lost Time – begins One Hundred Years of Solitude, a masterpiece of contemporary literature, translated into every language in the world, which definitively established Gabriel García Márquez as one of the greatest writers of our time. The fabulous adventure of the Buendía-Iguarán family, with its miracles, fantasies, obsessions, tragedies, incest, adulteries, rebellions, discoveries, and condemnations, represents both myth and history, tragedy and love of the entire world.