Although this author's superb Love in the Time of Cholera was reviewed in bookswelike (bwl 20), I was surprised to find that his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude had not been reviewed before. This stimulating fantasy, featuring life in the imagined jungle settlement of Macondo in Colombia, set Garcia Marquez's feet firmly on the path towards his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. I strongly recommend this remarkable feat of creativity.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 41 August 2007 ) |
