Synopsis: WorldCat: " One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps Latin America's most famous novel. An overnight sensation when it was first published in 1967, it has been translated into dozens of languages and remains a perennial favorite of readers around the world. Its strange, mesmerizing blend of the real and the fabulous introduced the world to magical realism and has inspired countless writers. More than a simple fantasy, though, it effectively encapsulates the social, political, and historical peculiarities of Latin America and, as Ilan Stavans writes in his introduction to this volume, "manages to build a self-sufficient ... universe, one paralleling ours." "