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Cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez (1971)

Subgenre

Age groupAdult 18+

Content ratingR

Pages396 (Standard (250-400))

Setting

CSM age18+

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Content levels

ViolenceModerate

Sexual contentModerate

LanguageMild

Trigger warnings

Death Death of Child Death of Parent Incest War Violence Suicide Mental Illness Grief Abandonment

Positive tags

Found Family Coming of Age Healing Arc

Protagonist archetypes

Ensemble Cast Multiple POVs

Tropes

Coming of Age Curse Cyclical Time Doomed Dynasty Fallen Empire Family Saga Founding Myth Generational Story Isolated Community Lost Civilization Magical Realism Prophecy

Themes

Solitude and Isolation Cyclical History Memory and Forgetting Fate vs Free Will Family Legacy Myth and Reality Time and Mortality Decline and Decay Love and Obsession

Synopsis

The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.

Tags

Magical RealismLiterary FantasyFamily SagaHistorical FantasyLatin American Fiction