1967One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
In the town of Macondo, founded in the Caribbean lowlands by José Arcadio Buendía, seven generations of the Buendía family live out a century of love, war, invention and solitude, from the wonder of the founding to the apocalyptic wind that erases the town. García Márquez's Macondo is drawn from his own Aracataca in coastal Colombia, and its history mirrors the region's: the wandering gypsies, the endless civil wars, the banana company and its massacre, and the long rains that close the book.
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