Not to nitpick but it’s 100 years of solitude, 100 años de Soledad, not days. The book takes place over about a hundred years and follows seven generations of a family in a fictional rural town in Colombia. It’s one of my all time favorite books and I’m even really excited for the Netflix adaptation (mini series, hopefully they’re still making it as I haven’t heard anything in years and I hope it doesn’t suck when it does finally come out).
Understandable sentiment, and not sure if Gabo ever would have gone for it himself, but his wife/son who manage his estate did and gave their reasoning.
Basically, they say the reason Garcia Marquez never granted movie rights to his works was two-fold: one, the stories are too long to be squeezed into a feature length film and done justice and two: every time Warner Bros or whoever would come knocking they wanted to make a movie in English.
Netflix was able to show that they could do extended storytelling in Spanish for a global audience with shows like Narcos etc, so the estate agreed. Gabo’s son will be involved with the production, I’m cautiously optimistic that it could be a good adaptation.
100 Years of Solitude
Hell yeah. Seriously loved this book. It’s the only one I can remember finishing and being completely blown away by. I’ve gifted it several times even though I don’t think anyone I’ve gifted it to has actually read it.
It was the first full length book I read in Spanish after learning it as a second language (years into learning Spanish after already being fluent in speaking, I decided to start reading novels to continue improving), and yeah it is absolutely incredible. Definitely can be a bit confusing at parts with how many characters have similar or the same names etc but it’s a hundred percent worth it.
