One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

First edition
Author	Gabriel García Márquez
Original title	Cien años de soledad
Translator	Gregory Rabassa
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish
Genre	Magic realism
Publisher	Editorial Sudamericana, Harper & Row (US) Jonathan Cape (UK)
Publication date	1967
Published in English	1970
Pages	422
OCLC	17522865

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, Latin American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲos ðe soleˈðað]) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.^[1][2][3][4]

The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s,^[5] which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Avant-Garde) literary movement.

Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, One Hundred Years of Solitude has been translated into 46 languages and sold more than 50 million copies.^[6][7][8][9] The novel, considered García Márquez's magnum opus, remains widely acclaimed and is recognized as one of the most significant works both in the Hispanic literary canon^[10] and in world literature.^[1][3]