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One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
One 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 Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'
Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book, and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny.
Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.
Critic reviews
"Should be required reading for the entire human race." (The New York Times)
"The book that sort of saved my life." (Emma Thompson)
"No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing." (Sunday Telegraph)
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- circledancer
- 22-03-24
Great narrstor
I always wanted to read this book but was put off by its length. Thank you for this opportunity tisten- the timbre of the narrator 's voice was perfect, as was his accent, pace, and the rolling around of the names in his mouth,such an important part of the story
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- O. Ustinova
- 18-01-24
a beautiful book with a terrible narration
the narrator's exaggerated pronunciation of names was simply exhausting. Better off getting a hard copy
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-04-24
Incredibly complex
Have listened to this a few times now to try and understand the story,
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- Iain B
- 11-04-23
Great work/ book
A beautiful sorrowful masterpiece on the human condition, family life , history and magical fantasy interwoven through character story arc’s
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- Nette
- 05-08-23
Tedious
Gave up on this book. A lot of rambling and hard to find an actual story.
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- hannah
- 13-03-23
Excellent
The narration was great, would recommend this version! I’ve been waiting for this edition and it definitely didn’t disappoint
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- Mark F.
- 27-03-23
Too prosaic for my tastes
I read this book in the 1980s and found it hard work and didn’t enjoy it. I often wondered why so I gave the audible version a go. I accept it is incredibly well written but it really is not my thing.
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- Groover
- 08-08-23
I just can’t care enough…
about the characters or what is happening to them to continue. It’s extremely rare that I give up on a book but 5 hours is enough to decide that this is not for me. It feels like a collection of vignettes (well written and engaging in isolation) rather than anything of a coherent narrative. I may have pulled the plug too soon to recognise a connecting drive to the novel, but I’d only be continuing in hope that it’s reputation is justified, at the expense of actual enjoyment.
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- SJO
- 11-01-24
Worst book I have ever read!
Awful and overrated book. I persisted through to the end despite hating it in the first hour. Kept hoping it would improve or reveal its hidden meaning. It did not.
There is only a cast in this book. There are no characters. There is no character development, and no likeable characters. It has a host of characters with similar names, none of whom have any emotional or spiritual development revealed. Most of the men have no redeeming characters, and the women are mainly bit players.
The book is full of unpleasant treatment of women from rape, through to sexual slavery, abuse, and a sexual desire for underage girls and general antipathy towards them. The many sexual encounters are not pleasant and not justifiable. I did not think it could get any worse, and then after 10 hours, bestiality, incest and paedophilia were introduced, none of the sexual encounters is in anyway pleasant.
Oh and animal cruelty is thrown in for good measure.
If I ever here the names Jose Arcadio and Aureliano again it will be a cold day in hell!
I have absolutely no idea why some people rave about this book and it has one awards and placings in lists of must read books. This is how I came to it and this is why I persisted.I will say to you, please save yourself and don’t waste your time or money on this book.
Beyond awful!
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