A convoluted, surreal tale of an adventurous Buendía family, discoverers and settlers of a fictitious South American town – Macondo – and narrated over 4 or 5 generations. The book reads like a feverish dream, the allure of the story not coming as much from a well-defined plotline as from the fantastical occurrences between the various colourful characters of the Buendía family and the residents of Macondo. For a dialogue-less book, One Hundred Years of Solitude manages to be quite engaging, mainly due to Márquez’s mastery of narrating magical realism.