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The multi-generational story of the Buendia family, whose patriarch, Jose Arcadio Buendia, founds the fictitious town of Macondo. Spanning seven generations and a century of turbulent Latin American history, the novel tells of love, war, prophecy, solitude and decay in a town where the extraordinary is treated as ordinary. Regarded as the author's masterpiece and the foremost example of magic realism, it helped earn Gabriel Garcia Marquez the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.