One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Lidia writes: I have just started reading the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. So far in the beginning of the story, the author describes about a fictional town named Macondo that José Arcadio Buendía, the limitless and curious man has founded. In telling the story of Macondo’s founding, the book moves backward in time, with glimpses of what was to come in the future. I can’t wait to read and write more about the novel, but for now here are some interesting facts and some background knowledge of the author:
Gabriel García Márquez, a Columbian, was born in 1928 in the small town of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern Colombia, between the mountains and the Caribbean Sea. He grew up with his maternal grandparent. his grandfather was a retirement funded colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. Gabriel García Márquez attended the University of Bogota, began to read law, but his studies were soon interrupted for his interest work as a journalist. In 1954 he was sent to Rome on an assignment for his newspaper, and since then he has mostly lived abroad in Paris, New York, Barcelona and Mexico. He was a novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, particularly for his masterpiece written in 1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude. Along with [ http://us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/EBchecked/topic/74100/Jorge-Luis-Borges ]Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez is the best known Latin American writer in history. He has also been a film critic for the Colombia newspaper, El Espectador. His books have been published in many countries and languages and is admired by many.