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One Hundred Years of Solitude Strand Critics Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2008) most particularly in terms ofOne Hundred Years of Solitude tells the magical story of the Buendia family, who love, lie, fight and rule for a century in Macondo, their settlement in the South American jungle. Part exotic paradise, part nightmare, Macondo is a fantastic world of miracles and mirages where nothing is as it seems. Its secrets lie hidden for years in an encoded book, and only Aureliana Buendia, the last in the dynasty, can unlock its mysteries and discover the fate