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        One Hundred Years of Solitude


        setting

        Macondo

        time

        Unknown

        language

        Spanish

        region

        Latin America

        year published

        1967

        page count

        448

        difficulty

        Extreme

        main characters

        José Arcadio Buendía, Buendía family, Melquíades

        Rip's impressions

        This classic novel draws the courageous reader, if they are willing deeper and deeper into a whirlpool of a dream that goes through time for seven generations of the Buendia clan. There are over 29 members of the family whose lives and adventures are covered. Can you guess who the narrator is? More than fifty years after written, it is still debated across the internet. Is it Melquíades? And is he dead or alive? Don't be so sure.

        first line

        Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

        literary tidbits

        The author inserted himself as a minor character and descendant of Jose Buendia.

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