100 Years of Solitude

The story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they settled and built. It starts off being a small settlement surrounded by mountains and evolves into a town with a big American plantation, before it returns to what nature intended it to be. Macondo has wars, disasters, and even a miracle. I really wanted to love this book but I found it heavy going and a depressing.

I could not understand this book though I desperately wanted to. I know its beloved and I can catch glimpses of why, but I just can't wrap my head around it.

“His fervour for the written word was an interweaving of solemn respect and gossipy irreverence.” “Always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end."