One Hundred Years of Solitude is a tremendous work, but News of a Kidnapping is a compelling.story of journalists, kidnapped by Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellín Cartel. The fate of Diana Turbay made me weep. My goal is to read everything that Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote. The last Marquez novel that I read was Memories of My Melancholy Whores. : banned in Iran.

Re: 100 Yrs.

Parkes said: "[It] taught the west how to read a reality alternative to their own, which in turn opened the gates for other non-western writers like myself and other writers from Africa and Asia.

"Apart from the fact that it's an amazing book, it taught western readers tolerance for other perspectives."

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I love his works. A man with insight to the himan condition.

William Kennedy has called it "the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race,"[47] and hundreds of articles and books of literary critique have been published in response to it.