One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

R11,500.00

An excellent example. García Marquez’s masterwork, originally published in Spanish (Cien años de soledad), in 1967, then translated into dozens of languages, bringing the once obscure Colombian writer to the world’s attention. The novel recounts seven generations of the Buendía family, from its youthful patriarch of the late 18th century to its last child of the early 20th. Its first sentence, now famous, breaks stylistically with Marquez’s earlier fiction in its use of multiple time frames: “Many years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” In a single sentence, Marquez has incorporated the narrator’s present, the character’s present and past, and a sense of the impending end of time, a unity of progress that flows throughout the novel to the final page.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very/Verry very good. -. First Impression of the First UK Edition, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Publisher’s turquoise cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge stained deep pink, illustrated dust jacket priced £1.75. Fine, square, and tight; about Very very good jacket (ends of spine panel and top edge of front panel slightly nicked), vivid and bright. SEE OUR OWN PICTURE for quality control
NB that on a US site this book is listed for $12 000.00 Our copy therefore very competitive at

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SKU: 791 Category: Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: onathan Cape,
Year: 1970
Condition: Very Good
Format: Hardcover
Inventory No: 791

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An excellent example. García Marquez’s masterwork, originally published in Spanish (Cien años de soledad), in 1967, then translated into dozens of languages, bringing the once obscure Colombian writer to the world’s attention. The novel recounts seven generations of the Buendía family, from its youthful patriarch of the late 18th century to its last child of the early 20th. Its first sentence, now famous, breaks stylistically with Marquez’s earlier fiction in its use of multiple time frames: “Many years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” In a single sentence, Marquez has incorporated the narrator’s present, the character’s present and past, and a sense of the impending end of time, a unity of progress that flows throughout the novel to the final page.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very/Verry very good. -. First Impression of the First UK Edition, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Publisher’s turquoise cloth, spine stamped in gilt, top edge stained deep pink, illustrated dust jacket priced £1.75. Fine, square, and tight; about Very very good jacket (ends of spine panel and top edge of front panel slightly nicked), vivid and bright. SEE OUR OWN PICTURE for quality control
NB that on a US site this book is listed for $12 000.00 Our copy therefore very competitive at

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Weight 0.65 kg
Dimensions 22.5 × 14 × 3 cm

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