From the archive, 28 June 1970: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
David Gallagher
The Guardian, Thursday 17 April 2014
England is now certainly the last remaining civilised country in which the extraordinary zest and originality of contemporary Latin American fiction has not been recognised.
At a time when the novel appears to many to have generally burnt itself out, Latin Americans have boisterously resuscitated the genre by presenting sheer original subject matter in a vigorous language and a correspondingly original form.