One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE_ 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice' Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its

a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines

a queen celebrated for her beauty

is pretty and wishes to be a lady

McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation

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Living in a castle on Clare Island 500 years ago

entertaining study of a nation in crisis' Financial Times

**Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal**

waiting for a catch – but attracts a sea-dweller he doesn’t expect

sometimes moving

monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his bravery and cunning to reach his homeland and overcome the obstacles that

to becoming the director of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and arguing momentous anti-sex discrimination cases before the U