One Hundred Years of Solitude.

GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel .

Item Number: 62002

New York: Harper Collins, 2014.

First edition of the re-issue of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Signed by the translator, Gregory Rabassa on the title page, who has added the classic quote from this novel, “It’s enough to know that you and I exist at this moment. Gregory Rabassa.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. The slipcase is in near fine condition.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles the life of Macondo, a fictional town based in part of Garcia Marquez's hometown of Aracataca, Colombia, and seven generations of the founding family, the Buendias. He creates a complex world with characters and events that display the full range of human experience. For the reader, the pleasure of the novel derives from its fast-paced narrative, humor, vivid characters, and fantasy elements. In this 'magic realism', the author combines imaginative flights of fancy with social realism to give us images of levitating priests, flying carpets, a four-year-long rainstorm, and a young woman ascending to heaven while folding sheets" (NYPL Books of the Century 31).