MARCH BOOK

And so we've reached the final installment of our triptych of classics with our March selection from one of the godfathers of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude (link).  The festivities begin at 7pm at our usual hangout, Zawa Restaurant (ZAWA) this coming Tuesday, March 10.  Anyone is welcome to join our small band of bantering, bibulous bibliophiles.

From Wikipedia:

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.  The magical realist style and thematic substance of the book established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s, which was stylistically influenced by modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Avant-Garde) literary movement.  Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, the book has been translated into 46 languages and sold more than 50 million copies.  The novel, considered García Márquez's magnum opus, remains widely acclaimed and is recognized as one of the most significant works both in the Hispanic literary canon and in world literature.

FEBRUARY BOOK

Our February book will be Absalom, Absalom by American Nobel laureate William Faulkner (link).  Note that we flipped Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude to March for the time being.  The usual suspects will be meeting on Tuesday evening, Feb. 10 at our regular Zawa Restaurant location (ZAWA) at 7pm.  As always, newcomers are more than welcome.

From Wikipedia:   Absalom, Absalom! is a Southern Gothic novel by the American author Wiliam Faulkner, first published in 1936. Taking place before, during and after the American Civil War, it focuses on the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a plantation owner in the American South, as told by several unreliable narrators many years later.