One Hundred Years of Solitude
Macondo
Aracataca, García Márquez’s small home town in Colombia’s banana zone. The writer took the name Macondo from the sign of a plantation beside the railway line.
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Colombia appears in the reader ranking through Gabriel García Márquez, who was born in 1927 in Aracataca, a small town in the country’s Caribbean region. His novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (1967) follows several generations of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo. In 1982 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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