One Hundred Years of Solitude (Bloom's Guides)

In a single, informative volume, One Hundred Years of Solitude presents a helpful literary guide to Gabriel García Márquez’s famous epic. This multigenerational tale tells the story of one family’s struggle to cope with their once insular town becoming less isolated as it faces the challenges of modernization. Filled with both beauty and tragedy, Márquez’s book has become representative of magical realism, and has made its mark as a modern classic.

Snowbound

When a blizzard strands Fiona MacPherson and her students in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, their only hope of survival is to seek shelter at Thunder Mountain Lodge. Their host is John Fallon, a handsome, enigmatic war veteran haunted by secrets and scars that may never heal.

Since its publication in 1967, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has sold more than 20 million copies and earned its author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a host of awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The novel has prompted comparisons to Miguel de Cervantes, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and even the Bible. The new edition of this critical volume brings together full-length essays that explore the nuances of Marquez's captivating fictive world.