Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · exile

Gabriel García Márquez's 1967 masterpiece of magical realism. Haunted by a man he killed, José Arcadio Buendía leads a band out of Riohacha on Colombia's Caribbean coast, crosses the impassable Sierra Nevada, and founds the town of Macondo by a river - where seven generations of the Buendía family live out a century of love, war, banana-company massacre and solitude before the town is swept away.

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   Riohacha

   The old Caribbean coastal town the Buendías flee after José Arcadio kills Prudencio Aguilar in a duel and the dead man's ghost will not leave them in peace.

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   Sierra Nevada

   The impassable mountains the founding band crosses on their wandering expedition, cut off from the world, searching for a place to begin again.

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   Macondo

   The town José Arcadio founds by a river after dreaming of a city of mirrors - isolated, visited by gypsies, and destined to rise and fall with the Buendía family across a hundred years.