Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...

With these words begins one of the most captivating and renowned novels of the twentieth century. A work that, "by word of mouth," as its author liked to say, was read by millions of readers in all the languages of the world and played a decisive role in Márquez being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The story of a town, Macondo, and a family, the Buendías - and through their passions, dreams, tragedies, betrayals, discoveries, miracles, mysteries, and disappointments, the story of a country, a continent, and the entire world.