How the protagonist try to come to grips with their past and how this obsessiveness brings about the doom of the family is captured in the novel. The theme of this book is about two families that witness various stages of life over the period of a century. The book was originally written in Spanish but has been translated into thirty seven languages and till date has sold over thirty million copies. In this novel one will come across this family name spreading out over seven generations. The fall and rise of the Buendia family is captured in the backdrop of all the strife that Latin American societies have witnessed. The book is engaging and intense that reminiscences of how history repeats itself with the collapse and creation of a new Macondo within a span of a century. The book has had a major impact on young minds that have taken up literature as a subject. It manages to capture the various phases and glories of the human history. The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is an absolute master piece. Book Summary: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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