“The most widely read work written in Spanish since “Don Quixote,” “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” published 50 years ago, is set in an unnamed South American country—probably Colombia. The town of Macondo is home to six generations of the Buendía family, whose ancestors arrived in a Spanish galleon abandoned on a remote jungle tributary; when last seen, monkeys were running up and down its sails.” - Allen Barra
client: The Wall Street Journal