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One Hundred Years of Solitude is a book about history and culture; the imaginary town of Macondo is based on the author's hometown of Aracataca, and the many events described in the novel - the civil unrest, the labor/commercial struggles, the technological changes - are historically accurate. Furthermore, Garcia Marquez’s narrative voice is…

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