One Hundred Years of Solitude

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  100 years of Macondo, 100 years of Buendia

  When looking over the Amazon.com reviews for this book, I see that many people love it and more people hate it (usually for its descriptions of incest, intergenerational marriages, and even a brief mention of bestiality). I would be terribly wrong, however, to judge this book based on a sensationali ... (continue)

  When looking over the Amazon.com reviews for this book, I see that many people love it and more people hate it (usually for its descriptions of incest, intergenerational marriages, and even a brief mention of bestiality). I would be terribly wrong, however, to judge this book based on a sensationalized account of the sins contained therein. Yes, the Buendia family is deeply troubled, each member acting out his or her internal terrors in a different way. In Macondo, everything beautiful becomes twisted. This is the real tragedy of this sometimes humorous, sometimes troubling novel. Anyone who comes away hating the Buendias was just treading the surface of meaning and missed the underlying madness that haunted the town of Macondo since its founding.

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  Read it three times - always feels different but never less than great.

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  ― Yelena said on Sep 18, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  it's taking me forever to finish reading the book!!! dont know if it's just the translation or that the author is excessively wordy by nature.

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• English Books
• Paperback 432 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0140157514
• ISBN-13: 9780140157512
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Jan 11, 1996
• Dimensions: 20 cm x 12 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Library Binding and Others
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