At the Guardian, he named his top ten fictional families, including:One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezRead about another family on the list.
Six generations of the BuendÃas family, most of the men helpfully called Aureliano, invent family life from scratch in the South American swamps of Macondo. The men are fantastical and useful, the women loving and vengeful: improbable magic, tender love and bitter feuds are their main occupations. Famous as the novelist who invented "magic realism", Marquez commented that he was just telling stories like his grandmother used to do. Some grandmother.
One Hundred Years of Solitude made Rebecca Stott's five best list of historical novels. It is one of Lynda Bellingham's six best books, Walter Mosley's five favorite books, and Eric Kraft's five most important books, and one of James Patterson's five most important books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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