This is a difficult review. After reading a few pages from the book, I was awestruck with what I was reading. It’s not just the depiction of some events or emotions; it’s full of life. The narration of the novel is quite uncommon. It speaks of things that are supernatural and fantastic in a tone as if it were nothing unnatural. The narrative may change at every other line. Pages full of events all being delivered in a perfect manner. No words are wasted, no sentences are useless. The readers get themselves immersed in the world created by Gabriel García Márquez.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, first published as Cien Años de Soledad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1967 led Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez to instant fame. It was later translated by Gregory Rabassa and published in the United States in 1970. This is the book that illuminated Márquez’s path towards the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the story of the birth, rise, fall and death of a fictional town of Macondo. It is a hundred years’ worth of details about José Arcadio Buendía, the founder of Macondo, and six generations of his family. This book is the definition of what ‘magical realism’ genre is. I am sure many writers were inspired by this book to work on the genre. The strange and moving narrative introduces characters who can either be loved or hated, but none of them can be ignored. The novel contains more than 20 characters throughout the story. The family tree of the Buendía family at the beginning of the book really helped me keep track. 
The story is full of life, death, evolutions, revolutions, love, politics, wars, catastrophic events and many more. Mentioning isolated events from the book won’t do justice to it. The whole reading experience will surely touch the heart of the readers. Reading through the four hundred pages did not feel boring even for a second. Every page has good content. Halfway through the book, it felt as if I had been reading for a long time, as I was filled with so much information already. 
In the book, there are many metaphorical events that resemble Columbia’s history, the United States and its capitalism. The banana company part of the story was truly remarkable and it was hard to digest that it was based on true events.
As I mentioned earlier, it is a difficult review. It’s hard to elaborate what this book is about by reading it only once. American novelist William Kennedy praised the book as “the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.”
Márquez delivers what many authors may have tried to convey, but never to this extent. It is a very thought-provoking piece of work, illustrating the truths we ignore every day. The best among the many quotes I listed was by the character Úrsula Iguarán, wife of José Arcadio Buendía. This quote really moved me as I found in it a partial meaning of what life is: 
“Open the windows and the doors, cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around, let strangers come and spread their mats in the corners and urinate in the rose bushes and sit down to eat as many times as they want, and belch and rant and muddy everything with their boots, and let them do whatever they want to us, because that’s the only way to drive off ruin.” n