New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition in English. In the second issue jacket, with a period after "Latin America" at the end of the first paragraph (rather than an exclamation point). A Fine copy in Nearly Fine dust jacket. Small spot of rubbing to cloth of upper board. Dust jacket with a bit of edgewear. Still an excellent example, retaining its bright colors.

Cien años de soledad, first published in English as One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1970, was García Márquez's second novel and is generally considered his greatest work – though El amor en los tiempos del cólera / Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) and El general en su laberinto / The General in His Labyrinth (1989) offer serious competition. One of the finest novels of the twentieth century, Cien años de soledad established García Márquez's international reputation and achieved incredible popularity, lifting the author from poverty as it eventually sold over thirty million copies. It was also a major factor in García Márquez being awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

The novel has been praised worldwide since its publication: a contemporary New York Times review lauded the story as “so filled with humor, rich detail and startling distortion that it brings to mind the best of Faulkner and Gunter Grass. It is a South American Genesis, an earthy piece of enchantment, more, as the narrator says of Macondo, ‘an intricate stew of truth and mirages.'" The impact of Cien años de soledad on Latin American literature, in particular, cannot be overstated. Carlos Fuentes, García Márquez's friend and contemporary, called the book "more than a novel, it is a libro de familia for the Latin American literary tradition, an eternal ship on which Gabriel García Márquez will remain forever alive among us." Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Item #8271)