One Hundred Years of Solitude (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien anos de soledad, 1967), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a novel which tells the multi-generational story of the Buendia family, whose patriarch, Jose Arcadio Buendia, 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).