The best gift a friend can give you is a book, especially when this book has been recognized worldwide. Books make you travel into time and you learn a lot because vocabulary improves and you can use your imagination to visualize as you read. A great example is 100 Years of Solitude (Cien Años De Soledad) by famous author, Gabriel García Márquez.
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was born on March 6 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia. He was a novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. He was known as Gabo throughout Latin America. García Márquez is considered one of the most important authors of the 20th century especially in the Spanish language. García Márquez died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87 in Mexico City. When he died, Colombian President; Juan Manuel Santos called Gabriel “the greatest Colombian who ever lived.”
The book 100 Years of Solitude (Cien Años De Soledad) was published in 1967. It is considered a masterpiece and an example of its style of magic realism. The book is based on seven generations of the Buendía family that spans a hundred years of unstable Latin American history from postcolonial 1820s to the 1920s. (www.britannica.com/topic/One-Hundred-Years-of-Solitude)
To continue, the patriarch José Arcadio Buendía builds the utopian city of Macondo in the middle of a swamp. At the beginning, the town is prosperous and it attracts Gypsies and hucksters, among them the old writer Melquíades, a stand-in for the author. (www.britannica.com)
In conclusion, this book always captures the attention of the lovers of reading. 100 Years of Solitude is a novel that you cannot miss the opportunity of reading.
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