One Hundred Years of Solitude Free Audiobook Download by Gabriel García Márquez


One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most influential works in all of Latin American literature. This literary masterpiece is over 1000 pages long, published in 1967, and won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a book all about family, the power to bring people together, and the importance of history. The novel was written in the form of a story told by Jose Arcadio Buendia who tells his children the story of their family's history as he lived it. This book can be seen as part of Latin America's tradition of magical realism which presents fantastical characters and events in everyday life.

Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude has been translated into more than 40 languages with sales over 80 million copies. The narrator of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, John Lee, recorded the audiobook in 2008 and it is now available to download for free from audible.com

One Hundred Years of Solitude, written by Gabriel García Márquez, is a masterpiece that tells the story of a family--the Buendía's--and their history. The book is told in a mix of stories and letters, with the narrator being interviewed by Buendia's grandson in 1984.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a classic novel. The story follows an unnamed South American city and its inhabitants. It opens with the birth of the central character, who turns out to be José Arcadio Buendía, the first of seven children born to Don Sergio Arcadio Buendía and Doña Carlota. After their marriage, they have a son: Aureliano, later known as "The Posthumous." The book then tells the story in chronological order beginning at the moment when Aureliano leaves for Paris in search of fortune as a scribe for an old family friend.

In this classic novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author tells a story of solitude and power. Father Santiago is an aging priest in a small, isolated town in the Colombian countryside where it's common for people to wait for marriage to find love or to die without having known either. Santiago spends his day dreaming of a family, living vicariously through his parishioners. Then one night he dreams that he is about to be eaten alive by rats, out of the entire town only one person comes to help him: the President of Colombia who tells him that he is going to be mayor of Santiago.

Published Date 2014-01-28
Duration 14 hours 7 minutes
Author Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated John Lee
Reviews
(164 Reviews)
Abridged No
Is It Free? 30-days Free
Category Fiction & Literature
Parent Category Family Life, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Literary Fiction

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