One Hundred Years of Solitude–An Alternative Universe?
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (1967) by the Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a masterpiece of magical realism, telling the story of seven generations of the Buendía family. Sprawling over a century, the tragic circumstances in a utopian conceived town–Macondo–are revealed, where isolation as a community at first protects them from conflict and greed. But the Buendía family cannot escape its fate: the curse of generations of love, betrayal, and forbidden sex.
In the opening scene (to be bookended at the end of the eight-episode Netflix series)...