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<strong><img align="right" alt="One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez" height="200" src="/common/_RTE/Image/Library/OneHundredYears.JPG" style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin: 3px;" width="129" />Thursday, July 10 at 6pm<br />
Swannanoa Library<br />
101 West Charleston Street<br />
250-6486</strong></p>
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One of the 20th century&#39;s enduring works, <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em> is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize winning career.</p>
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The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buend&iacute;a family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buend&iacute;a family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.<br />
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Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility &ndash; the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth &ndash; these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel Garc&iacute;a M&aacute;rquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master.<br />
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Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez&nbsp;weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.</p>
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All interested readers are welcome to attend.</p>