Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: “He had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors would be wiped out by the wind.”

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One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967 and became an instant sensation across Latin America and eventually the world. García Márquez wrote it in Mexico City while Colombia was still recovering from the period of civil war known as La Violencia, and the novel's cyclical family history mirrored the political repetitions of the region.

Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate, widely regarded as the father of magical realism in literature. His 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude transformed Latin American and world literature, blending myth, history, and the everyday into an entirely new fictional universe.