{"product_id":"9780062380449","title":"One Hundred Years of Solitude Slipcased Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the twentieth century’s most beloved and acclaimed novels, available in a special limited slip-cased edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1967, \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e launched Gabriel García Márquez to international fame, and cemented his reputation as a literary legend. A central figure in the Latin Boom, García Márquez was the most celebrated practitioner of the literary style that has become known as magic realism, and in 1982, received the highest literary achievement: the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda called \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, “the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Don Quixote of Cervantes.” In the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e legendary critic John Leonard proclaimed, “with a single bound, Gabriel García Márquez leaps onto the stage with Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov.” And writer William Kennedy has hailed García Márquez’s masterpiece as, “the first piece of literature since the \u003ci\u003eBook of Genesis\u003c\/i\u003e that should be required reading for the entire human race. Mr. García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver four decades after its publication, \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e remains one of the most beloved and venerated books in world literature. A rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, it tells the story of the mythical town of Macondo through the lives of seven generations of the doomed Buendía family. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendías, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternately reverential and comical, \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves the political, personal, and spiritual, bringing a new consciousness to storytelling; this radiant work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis special edition is a re-designed jacketed hardcover featuring colored endpapers in a beautiful, elegant slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015576764656,"sku":"9780062380449","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062380449_p0.jpg?v=1763631008","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062380449","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}