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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garda Marquez was born in Aracataca,
Colombia, in 1928. He studied at the University of
Bogota and later worked as a reporter for the
Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign
correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas
and New York. He is the author of several novels and
collections of stories, including Eyes o{ a Blue Dog
(1947), Lea{ Storm (1955), No One Writes to the Colonel
(1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama''s Funeral (1962),
One Hundred Years o{ Solitude (1967), Innocent
Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the
Patriarch (1975), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985),
The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims
(1992) and 0{ Love and Other Demons (1994). He has
also written several book-length reconstructions of
real events, including Chronicle o{ a Death Foretold
(1981) and, most recently, News of a Kidnapping
(1996). Many of his books are available in Penguin.
Gabriel Garda Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years
of Solitude
Translated from the Spanish
by Gregory Rabassa
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