One of the world's most famous novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garc a M rquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, blends the natural with the supernatural in on one of the most magical reading experiences on earth.'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend a was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'Gabriel Garc a M rquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buend a family and of Macondo, the town they have built.