One Hundred Years of Solitude (Perennial Classics)

458 pp. The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.