--- product_id: 256538448 title: "PENGUIN One Hundred Years of Solitude" price: "€ 21.56" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/256538448-penguin-one-hundred-years-of-solitude store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Global bestseller status Classic literary masterpiece Published since 2014 PENGUIN One Hundred Years of Solitude **Price:** € 21.56 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock the magic of Macondo — where every page is a journey through time. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** PENGUIN One Hundred Years of Solitude - **How much does it cost?** € 21.56 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/256538448-penguin-one-hundred-years-of-solitude) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Multigenre Appeal:** Ranks top 100 in Classic, Fantasy & Contemporary fiction categories. - • **Timeless Literary Icon:** Dive into the magical realism that shaped generations. - • **Compact Paperback Edition:** Perfectly portable for your daily commute or coffee break. - • **Cultural Conversation Starter:** Own the book that sparked Netflix adaptation buzz. - • **Critically Acclaimed Bestseller:** Join over 3,800 readers who rated it 4.5 stars. ## Overview Penguin's 2014 paperback edition of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' offers a compact, accessible version of Gabriel García Márquez's globally celebrated novel. With a 4.5-star rating from over 3,800 readers and top rankings across multiple literary genres, this edition is a must-have for any serious reader eager to explore the rise and fall of the Buendía family and the mythical town of Macondo. ## Description One Hundred Years of Solitude Review: 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. Review: book - looks good but HATE the netflix logo on the front cover, the netflix logo wasn’t even on the listing image. ## Features - Binding: Paperback Brand: Penguin books ltd Language: English Manufacturer: Penguin books ltd Publication date: 2014-03-06T00:00:01Z ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,215 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #59 in Classic Literature & Fiction #79 in Fantasy #143 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,806 Reviews | ## Images ![PENGUIN One Hundred Years of Solitude - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71WQQjgEhQL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting, but confusing too. *by A***N on 26 June 2025* 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ book *by D***D on 8 June 2026* looks good but HATE the netflix logo on the front cover, the netflix logo wasn’t even on the listing image. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A timeless classic by a master storyteller *by S***N on 7 July 2020* 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. 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