Product DescriptionThe Real Academia Española celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Garcia Marquez s masterpiece in this beautiful commemorative edition. Prologues by Carlos Fuentes, Alvaro Mutis, Mario Vargas Llosa and other intellectuals. One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. -New York Times Book Review
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Rating: - Outstanding
The time period from the e-mail notification (when they notify me the item was shipped to me) to when I actually got the item was kind of long, but besides that, very good service.
Rating: - Una buena edición de un buen libro.
Este edición, aparte de ser un buen libro, es otro edición ejemplar de Alfaguara. Sale en pasta dura y tiene un listón en medio del libro para mantener tu página. Además del libro, salen artículos de Carlos Fuentes ("Para darle nombre a América"), Mario Vargas Llosa ("Cien años de Soledad. Realidad total, novela total.") y otros. También incluye un glosario del español de Márquez (para explicar las palabras que no están o no tienen el mismo sentido en otros dialectos del español.) Y ... Read More
Rating: - I don't know how one writer can have so many ideas
In this, his magnum opus detailing the historical arc of the Buendia family in the fictional near-Caribbean town of Macondo, Marquez is stupefyingly inventive and constantly violates the basic storytelling principle of "show, don't tell." That's a good thing, because if he didn't a book where so much happens would be three thousand pages long, in which case I wouldn't have the stamina to read it in the original. Reading alternately in Spanish and English, I found that, in addition to increasing my ... Read More
Rating: - soldado de soledad
Nice spanish-language edition of Garcia Marquez's classic. Informative sections inside. Note that although this is a hardcover, it does not come with a dust jacket. The image of its cover is attached to the hardcover itself.
Rating: - Excelente libro
Este es un excelente libro. Gabo en su total esplendor. Una vez que lo comienzas a leer no podrás dejarlo.
- Outstanding
- Una buena edición de un buen libro.
