It took third attempt for me to start over again to finish the book and still keep track of the story and the characters. But as Marquez said it "Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use.."
The story revolves around the family of Buendias residing in the town of Macondo. Although the desolated village is the focus of the story but sudden alterations due to commingling of ethnic groups and changes in law and order, transforming the lives of inhabitants keeps the narration zingy.
The story line sports the civil war disrupting the peace and sanctity of Macondo. It changes from idyllic, magical and entrenched place to a town irrevocably connected to outside world through the notoriety of the new found Colonel Buendia.
The unfaltering law and order in Mocondo is irreverently shattered by dictatorship and later ends with another civil war; which is put to an end through a peace treaty. All though this numerous changes in lives of people is captured beautifully by the author in his magnetising narration.
These 100 years beguile multiple births, deaths, marriages and sexual conquests by both ungregarious men and usurious and outgoing women of Buendia family. Ursula Iglearan, as a mother & wife wood dedicatedly to keep the family together though thick and thins and slogs persistently for the benefit of the village. but as if it was preordained for Mocondo, capitalism came with a cost. American plantations were neglected and land was exploited, so were the workers. Realisation of rights gave way to insurrection; which was crushed by fierce massacre. The nature rebelled in its own way, leading to floods.
The descend of the city was sam as its beginning. It was isolated, solitary again. The unexpended of the Buendias caused their diminution by alienating themselves from the world, incestuously fetching doomed lonesome ending.
Ultimately, the novel has a rich imagination achieved by its rhythmic tone, narrative technique, and fascinating character creation, making it a thematic quarry, where the trivial and anecdotal and the historic and political are combined.
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