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📚 World Classics
🇨🇴 100 Years of Solitude
García Márquez's magical realist masterpiece; the defining novel of Latin American literature
Colombia 1967 World Classics
📚 Key Facts
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Published 1967 by Gabriel García Márquez; won him the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Chronicles 7 generations of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo
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Sold 50 million+ copies; translated into 46 languages; considered the greatest Spanish-language novel ever written
"Magical realism" as a literary term was popularised by this novel — blending the magical into everyday reality
Quick Reference
Category
📚 World Classics
Country/Origin
🇨🇴 Colombia
Year / Era
1967
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García Márquez's magical realist masterpiece; the defining novel of Latin American literature