--- product_id: 427861299 title: "Penguin Random House One Hundred Years Of Solitude (international Writers S.)" price: "VT3119" currency: VUV in_stock: false reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/427861299-penguin-random-house-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-international-writers store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Penguin Random House One Hundred Years Of Solitude (international Writers S.) **Price:** VT3119 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Penguin Random House One Hundred Years Of Solitude (international Writers S.) - **How much does it cost?** VT3119 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/427861299-penguin-random-house-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-international-writers) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Buy Penguin Random House One Hundred Years Of Solitude (international Writers S.) New edition by Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (ISBN: 9780198743514) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Review: An Epic Tale, But Also a Difficult Read - This is such a wonderful book. The range and breadth of situations, challenges, life problems, joy and most profound heartache that run through the story of one family over 100 years is captivating and fascinating. In that regard the story telling and imagination is incredible. Where I personally struggled with it, was in the fact that so many characters had the same name, at the same time. I know many families around the world do that, but reading quite complex family, romantic and political situations when so many people share the same name, just bewildered me and slowed the pace down. Plus, very often the story telling drifted into the fantastical and supernatural - perhaps that was a reflection of the intended time and age (deep religious and supernatural beliefs) but for me, the "magical" situations diluted the serious drama of the core story. So, I really enjoyed this epic tale, but it was not the most easy of reads. Review: García Márquez Nobel prize for literature winning novel is a good novel - García Márquez Nobel prize for literature winning novel is a good novel. It is set over 100 years; the Buendia family over 7 generations so as time lapses times change. It is an interesting book as it is a fantasy novel or magic realism or a surealistic life. It is also a comic book. The imagination is incredible. It is well written but I did find the names difficult to follow who was who. I will read other books by this author. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 1,274,622 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 316 in Literary Fiction (Books) 588 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) | | Customer reviews | 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (9,181) | | Dimensions | 13 x 2.7 x 19.7 cm | | Edition | New edition | | ISBN-10 | 0140157514 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0198743514 | | Item weight | 308 g | | Language | English | | Print length | 432 pages | | Publication date | 11 Jan. 1996 | | Publisher | Penguin | ## Images ![Penguin Random House One Hundred Years Of Solitude (international Writers S.) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81oAEEwxBWL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Epic Tale, But Also a Difficult Read *by M***S on 19 April 2025* This is such a wonderful book. The range and breadth of situations, challenges, life problems, joy and most profound heartache that run through the story of one family over 100 years is captivating and fascinating. In that regard the story telling and imagination is incredible. Where I personally struggled with it, was in the fact that so many characters had the same name, at the same time. I know many families around the world do that, but reading quite complex family, romantic and political situations when so many people share the same name, just bewildered me and slowed the pace down. Plus, very often the story telling drifted into the fantastical and supernatural - perhaps that was a reflection of the intended time and age (deep religious and supernatural beliefs) but for me, the "magical" situations diluted the serious drama of the core story. So, I really enjoyed this epic tale, but it was not the most easy of reads. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ García Márquez Nobel prize for literature winning novel is a good novel *by C***N on 3 January 2026* García Márquez Nobel prize for literature winning novel is a good novel. It is set over 100 years; the Buendia family over 7 generations so as time lapses times change. It is an interesting book as it is a fantasy novel or magic realism or a surealistic life. It is also a comic book. The imagination is incredible. It is well written but I did find the names difficult to follow who was who. I will read other books by this author. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the richest, most dense, detailed, dreamlike, symbolic, mysterious, magical, funny... *by B***E on 13 September 2023* Some say, some books, you should never read again in later life. I’ve heard it said, for instance, that having enjoyed The Catcher in the Rye when one was seventeen, that it is a mistake to return to it in middle or later years. Thomas Mann prescribes the reading of his The Magic Mountain, “not once, but twice” – though omits to specify any interval. Having just finished reading ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez I feel that this is a novel that one could beneficially revisit several times throughout one’s lifetime – say every two decades? And that’s quite a numerically reasonable suggestion because if - as at least two of the many characters in this narrative do – you live to the age of one hundred, that’s only five reads in a lifetime. For me however, there’s a snag. Somehow, when this novel was published and I was seventeen, I slipped through the net of readership, this is my first reading, and now at the age of seventy-three – according to my own perhaps rashly-prepared gospel – quite possibly it will be my only reading! A shame, because this is one of the richest, most dense, detailed, dreamlike, formalist, symbolic, mysterious, magical, funny - I had some good laughs, and some nightmares! – pieces of writing I’ve ever come across. Painting equivalents? The Fairy Feller’s Masterstroke, Guernica, The Persistence of Memory might give one some idea of the level of detail – not necessarily content – one’s in for. There are twenty-four main protagonists agonising over seven generations of the BUENDIA family in this intense stylish saga which more or less coincides with the crackly political and social history of Colombia between the years 1820 and 1920. Unsurprisingly the plot is baffling. Its weave is not unlike that of a Wilton carpet, so instead of 'U' shaped yarns, the fibre is woven all the way through the carpet and then sheared to create a range of cut and loop textures. Every so often characters pop up to the surface, having travelled invisibly under the substrate for scores of pages, and years. Sometimes without any apparent explanation, build or lead in. The reader might be forgiven in thinking that s/he had one foot in a William Burroughs cut-and-paste text and the other in a David Bowie lyric. It might cause annoyance to a convergent thinker, but just relax and enjoy passages such as; ‘when he asked for the most beautiful woman who had ever been seen on this earth, all the women brought him their daughters. He became lost in misty byways, in figures reserved for oblivion, in the labyrinths of disappointment. He crossed a yellow plain where the echo repeated one’s thoughts and where anxiety brought on premonitory mirages.’ But there’s much more than the apparently ‘cut-and-paste’ plot. Here are just some of the themes and symbols which go fuguing away throughout the narrative; gold, ice, buried treasure, death – particularly by firing squad, the death of birds flying into things, incest, the invisibility of people, cannibalism, and of course solitude. There are curious repeat mentions of anointings, lye, chamber pots, small candy animals, gypsies, macaws, small golden fishes, the drawing of chalk circles, begonias and the requirement – or not, a political reference – to paint one’s house either blue or red. So, I leave you with a few further almost edible Marquezian phrases; ‘more than once he felt her thoughts interfering with his,’ or ‘solitude had made a selection in her memory, and had burned the nostalgic piles of dimming waste that life had accumulated in her heart,’ or how about, ‘the journeyman geniuses of Jerusalem’? But perhaps we should attribute at least some of this tickly prose to Gregory Rabassa his translator? --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/427861299-penguin-random-house-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-international-writers](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/427861299-penguin-random-house-one-hundred-years-of-solitude-international-writers) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-06-06*