100 Years of Solitude: Including Life of the Author, Introduction to the Novel, the Buendia Genealogy, List of Characters, Critical Commentaries, Character Analyses, Themes (Cliffsnotes)

This history of a family is an amalgamation of Garcia Marquez's shorter fiction, American fiction, biblical parables, and quixotic experiences of his own unique life story. His is a community crowded with people and personal narratives, confusion, and progressive decline. The novel is a journey through life, caught on paper, so real that you'll swear you can smell it.