The bestselling Spanish-language novel ever — Marquez sold a million copies in three years and won the Nobel Prize.
The bestselling novel ever written in Spanish, One Hundred Years of Solitude sold 1 million copies within three years of its 1967 publication — a velocity of success that dwarfs Moby-Dick's lifetime sales of fewer than 4,000 copies. Gabriel García Márquez's multigenerational saga of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo established magical realism as a globally recognized literary mode and won García Márquez the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Over 50 million copies have since been sold across 46 languages. The novel permanently expanded what literary fiction is permitted to do, folding the supernatural seamlessly into historical reality without apology or explanation.
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