Download or read book One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where José Arcadio Buendía and his strong-willed wife, Úrsula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquíades excites Aureliano Buendía's father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands.