Cien años de soledad

The best present I have received is probably a book, this book is “Cien años de soledad”, written by my favorite writer the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. This was the present that my mother gave it to me for to incentivize to read every days. I love this book and I value too much this present, because I read for first time “realismo mágico” and it’s one of my favorites literary topics. I don’t remember how old I was in this time, but I guess 13 or 14 years.

In this book we can see a big part of Latin-American history, the typical war between liberals and conservatives and the construction of national states. The story of book is the life; the daily life of one family in Macondo, this family is “Los Buendía”. And as the name of book says, this story last one hundred years. The first Buendía is José Arcadio who was married with Úrsula Iguarán, they were cousins. They had two sons, José Arcadio, Aureliano (Coronel) and two daughters Amaranta and Rebeca (she is adopted). Then there are a lot of Buendías in Macondo, even Aureliano had seventeen sons. One characteristic of this family is that all Buendías was named with the names of the two firsts generations.

A notable character is Melquíades, a gypsy that visited Macondo a lot of times. He is my favorite character with Coronel Aureliano Buendía. I like them because they are very amazing, there aren’t characters like they in others books.

Now I have the book in my room, and I would like to read it again.      

There is a cumbia of Cien años de soledad: