<Tr> <Th> Published in English </Th> <Td> 1970 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 17522865 </Td> </Tr> <P> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, American Spanish: (sjen ˈaɲoz ðe soleˈðað)) is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia . </P> <P> The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Avant - Garde) literary movement . </P>

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