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Novels set in Colombia (Book Guide): Cosmic Banditos, El Carnero, Inca Gold, In Evil Hour, Leaf Storm, Love in the Time of Cholera, María (novel), No ... to the Colonel, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Paperback. BooksLLC.net 2013-09-13.
ISBN 9781230813011
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 32. Chapters: Cosmic Banditos, El Carnero, Inca Gold, In Evil Hour, Leaf Storm, Love in the Time of Cholera, María (novel), No One Writes to the Colonel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Our Lady of the Assassins (novel), Satanás (novel), Snowblind (book), Tales from the Town of Widows, The General in His Labyrinth, The Vortex (novel), ¡Que viva la música!. Excerpt: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: , 1967), by Gabriel García Márquez, is a novel that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia. The non-linear story is narrated via different time frames, a technique derived from the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (as in The Garden of Forking Paths). The widely acclaimed book, considered by many to be the author's masterpiece, was first published in Spanish in 1967, and subsequently has been translated into thirty-seven languages and has sold more than 20 million copies. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, that was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American), and the Cuban Vanguardia (Vanguard) literary movement. The Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez was one of the four Latin American novelists first included in the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s; the other three writers were the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, the Argentine Julio Cortázar, and the Mexican Carlos Fuentes. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) earned García Márquez international fame as a novelist of the Magical Realism movement within the literatures of Latin America. As a metaphoric, critical
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