"One Hundred Years of Solitude" was the only book that everyone in my family ever read, me, my wife and my three kids. "Mr. García Márquez, who received the No

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" was the only book that everyone in my family ever read, me, my wife and my three kids. "Mr. García Márquez, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation, but his appeal was universal. His books were translated into dozens of languages. He was among a select roster of canonical writers — Dickens, Tolstoy and Hemingway among them — who were embraced both by critics and by a mass audience." from the article. But the article doesnt begin to do the book justice. The mythology is Colombian but it all is real to the reader. It is very worthwnile to read One Hundred Years along with a literary biography of Marquez. It was a wonderful experience for me. BTW my taste is purely science fiction.