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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Entertainment
Daisy Lester

The book behind Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of magic realism - here’s why I love it

The Netflix series as scored an 100 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes - (iStock/The Independent)

Published in 1967, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time.

Suprisingly, the tome has never been adapted for the screen – until now. Previously, it’s been thought that the book’s multi-layered timeline, themes and worlds could not be easily visualised for TV or movies. In fact, Marquez himself said that no adaptation could truly capture the novel’s essence, and that it would take 100 hours to tell the story properly.

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