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inulro9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I picked this up in a charity shop when I was out of work, so it's taken me a really long time to get round to this, because it actually requires attention and brain power and I've never been convinced about the whole magic realism phenomenon.
It took a while to get into it but once I got to grips with how it works it's not actually that difficult - you just have to accept that Weird Shit Happens. I'm sure I missed loads of subtext but I still got a tremendous amount out of it.
It's the story of a family who are amongst the founders of a town in an unnamed South American country and how their fortunes mirror those of the town. The prose is absolutely gorgeous and whimsical and funny. The story is also brutal and violent and depressing (ie very, very Latin American).
I will definitely be reading more of his books in the future.
I picked this up in a charity shop when I was out of work, so it's taken me a really long time to get round to this, because it actually requires attention and brain power and I've never been convinced about the whole magic realism phenomenon.
It took a while to get into it but once I got to grips with how it works it's not actually that difficult - you just have to accept that Weird Shit Happens. I'm sure I missed loads of subtext but I still got a tremendous amount out of it.
It's the story of a family who are amongst the founders of a town in an unnamed South American country and how their fortunes mirror those of the town. The prose is absolutely gorgeous and whimsical and funny. The story is also brutal and violent and depressing (ie very, very Latin American).
I will definitely be reading more of his books in the future.
