Picked up an English translation of Cien anos de Soledad yeasterday.
Garcia Marquez is amazing. I read that one in Spanish back in University. It blew me away. If you're familiar with the movie
The Mosquito Coast, I'm convinced that it (well, the book it was based on, anyway) was "inspired" by a brief incident in Garcia Marquez' book.
Hmm. I'll have to check out
The Mosquito Coast after I'm done with this.
Cien años de soledad looks interesting so far (I'm only a few pages into it). I've only read one other novel by Gabriel García Márquez --
Del amor y otros demonios, an English translation of which I read my senior year in high school and which I enjoyed a lot.
I'm getting into
Cien años de soledad because I'm developing an interest in Latin American history and culture. I'm reading
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, which deals in part with the rise of neo-liberalism in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia as a result of U.S.-backed coups and "structural realignment." I also did my final college research paper on the history of the Argentine Dirty War and the subsequent transitional justice efforts there, and I had to take four courses
en español in my last year of university. (Just graduated Saturday.) So all that has combined to make me very interested in Latin America. I am
woefully ignorant of Latin American history and culture, I'm afraid...