Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7959 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Synopsis
This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb.

Customer Reviews

Magnificent novel
A magical book in all senses, this is one of the most enjoyable and memorable novels I have ever read. I rate it up there with Don Quijote and The Feast of the Goat in terms of novels originally written in Spanish. Entertaining, moving and brilliantly written.

Best Book Ever Written
I think no other book has had so much impact on me as this one.. Read it when I was 15 - loved it. Read it when I was 30 - was impressed even more.. Everyone has to read this book. Whether you like it or not - different matter. But once you've read it, you will never forget it. Masterpiece.

*must* be read.
With his usual magical realist style, marquez weaves a world of fantasy and despair, the contrast between humour and devastation. Described by some as a 'modern fairytale', OHYOS is far more complex and tragic than that. Although a common complaint is that the characters all bear similar names, this in fact adds to the main theme of the book - the cyclical nature of time and the inability to escape fate and foreshadowing. One first approach the book is extraordinarily complex, changing time period, location and emotion in often one or two paragraphs. OHYOS is really a book that needs to be read twice or even three times to absorb the desperate beauty of Marquez's world. however, you could read it 30 times and still never tire of his style, wit and graceful writing. This is not just a book I would recommend, it is a book that *must* be read!! I'd also like to recommend reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece--The Fates--if you haven't yet!