Reviews

• This is one of my favourite books ever.

  I don't have a lot to say except I felt like I was a member of the Buendia family myself by the time I finished reading this. Genuinely difficult to put down.

• Delivered promptly w no fuss thank you!

  Great book!

• 発送時の傷対策。

  本の表紙が2ミリ程度破けていた。読めないわけではないし、大きな損傷でもないが、以前にも他の本で同じような傷があった。ネット購入では仕方がない部分かもしれないが、もう少し発送側も注意して欲しいと思う。

• Cool

  Cool

• これが２０世紀最大のベストセラーなんですか？

  ２０世紀最大の作家とクリントン前大統領が賞賛していたので、すぐに探して読んで見ましたが、何故彼がノーベル賞受賞するまで評価されているか分かりません。ハリー・ポッターみたいな感じもありますが、ちょっと時代遅れの文体の様な気もします。２１世紀はもっとテンポが速く、より現実的になってしまっていて、この本をじっくり読んで感動する余裕がないのではないでしょうか。彼の良さを解説してくださる方がいたら、光栄です。

• One I would re-read...

  Enchanting book that I couldn`t put down.

• デザインで

  百年の孤独は翻訳で読んでいるので、 こちらは英語版のデザインでインテリア用に買いました。 だからその目線での★５．

• One Hundred Year to Read

  I would rename this book One Hundred Years to Read. The progression of the book was very slow and the characters development was difficult to follow. I found myself re-reading chapters to remember the characters. The I gave up half way through but then decided to finish since I already started. I should have followed my first thought. This book felt like a book you had to read in secondary school.

• A timeless classic by a master storyteller

  100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE - Gabriel Garcia Marquez There are tragedies, there are comedies, there is drama and there are love stories. And then, there is this classic by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which does not fit into any of these neatly defined categories - and yet it does. It contains all of these and, at the same time, it is so different from and unlike anything you might have read. It is a panoramic saga of the South American village Macondo, situated somewhere in the swamps, narrated through the trials and tribulations of six generations of the Buendia family, with a sweeping canvas over time and space, which is remarkable and breath-taking. The evolution of Macondo from nothingness to becoming a happy village of 300 odd souls where no one dies and then passing through commercialization, enterprise, prostitution, debauchery, incest, maladministration, railways and telegraph, tyranny, wars, deluge and final annihilation at the cruel hands of nature. As the drama unfolds, one comes across unforgettable characters and events – the mysterious Melquíades, the enterprising but eccentric patriarch Jose Arcadio Beundia, the morally upright matriarch Ursula, the clairvoyant Pilar Ternera, the valiant Colonel Aureliano Buendia, the unfortunate Rebeca, the licentious Petra Cotes, the vain Fernanda, the beauteous Remedios the Beauty, the tragic Meme, the gluttonous Aureliano Sugondo, the stubborn Amaranta, the hopelessly romantic Pietro Crespi and many more (The only confusing element is the repetition of same names across generations, a bit like George W. Bush Sr. and George W. Bush Jr.. Thus, we have several Aurelianos and Jose Arcadios and Remedios'). That minor inconvenience not withstanding, the novel is infused with elements of superstition and paranormal in a way that Shakespeare would have been proud of. And yet, everything is believable. The annihilation of Macondo is almost inevitable from the beginning – like a Sophoclean Tragedy - but it is not so straightforward. All the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle must fit for that to happen which they do, exactly as prophesized by Melquíades and deciphered by Aureliano Babilonia as it is happening all around him. Everything seems real and yet nothing is real at the same time. Perhaps, the author himself sums it up beautifully in the words of the Wise Catalonian: “The past was a lie, memory has no return, every spring gone by could never be recovered, and the wildest and most tenacious love is an ephemeral truth in the end.” I would recommend this book to all lovers of good literature. It is as good as it gets.

• Interesting, but confusing too.

  I would like to request everyone who purchased anything just give a review because including me everyone buy something after reading reviews. Let's talk about book so the book is, I would say interesting, confusing, but hard to understand at once, actually if one understand the Buendia family tree you get the store & also the rise and fall of Macondo.

• A Whole Lot of Solitude

  I really enjoyed the book. Whether it is 100 years of Buenida family history spread over 500 pages, it flows very nicely. It's a page turner of a book, as you pass from one generation to another in a haze of names that keep repeating. Solitude is a metaphor, for melancholy, seclusion, mental illness, and many more similar feelings. Everybody goes through some dose of solitude through life, and it's nice to be able to reflect through Marquez's characters. What is interesting for me though is that most of the characters would be committed into instructions or jailed in our modern societies. However, with all their idiosyncrasies, obsessive-compulsiveness, and plain madness, they all managed to go through their existences long before the advent of mind-numbing medications. Life was sure simpler, and far more entertaining back in this era. I would recommend this book, to anybody who wants to expand their literary horizons, and their understanding of some dark corners of human nature. I can only hope that Marquez is spending the last days of his life at peace with his solitude...

• Muy buena calidad y presentación del libro.

  Es un regalo para mi hija que ya tiene esta obra en español, cómo en una entrevista Gabriel García Márquez dijo que había quedado muy satisfecho con la versión en inglés, pues me parece excelente obsequio para una lectora bilingüe.

• The feeling of solitude is real in this book

  Fun to read. A lot of characters but there’s a chart to keep up. I’m a huge Marquez fan and this is one of his best works. The book overall gave me a sense of solitude after I was done. Netflix is releasing a series soon based on the book. Not sure how I feel about it because the writing style and plot of the story is complex. I recommend reading up on Colombian history during the 60s and 70s because he does touch on that in the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is into fiction.

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