The worldwide acclaim bestowed upon the novel led to a discovery by readers and critics of other Latin American practitioners of magical realism. In addition to establishing the reputation of its author, One Hundred Years of Solitude was a key work in the Boom of Latin American literature of the 1960s. Interwoven with their personal struggles are events that recall the political, social, and economic turmoil of a hundred years of Latin American history. The most central of these is One Hundred Years of Solitude, which relates the history of several generations of the Buendía family, the founders of this imaginary Colombian town. Often compared to William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County in its scope and quality, García Márquez's Macondo is revealed in several of the author's short stories and novels. The exceptional achievement of One Hundred Years of Solitude was highlighted in the citation awarding García Márquez the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. Today, the novel has been translated into more than thirty languages and there are a number of pirated editions. The first printings sold out before they could be shelved. The result was Cien años de soledad, later translated into English as One Hundred Years of Solitude. After eighteen months, a hefty tome of thirteenn hundred pages was sent to the publishers. Gradually the entire neighborhood was involved in helping to bring forth what has since been recognized as a masterpiece. There he wrote while his wife, Mercedes Barcha, sold, mortgaged, and stretched credit to keep the family going.
He turned the car around and drove straight home, where he proceeded directly to a back room. In an instant, he saw that the key to the imaginary village of Macondo he had been creating in short vignettes was the storytelling technique of his grand-mother-absolute brick-faced description of extraordinary events. Everything changed, however, after he had a sudden insight while driving his family through Mexico. In the mid-1960s, journalist and fiction writer Gabriel José García Márquez was little known outside his native Colombia, having never sold more than seven hundred copies of a book.
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