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Question: Have you read 100 years of Solitude!?
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez!?
It is my absolute favourite book ever!. If you have and you know of any other so beautifully complete novels, please recommend to me!. ThanksWww@QuestionHome@Com


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My all time favorite!!!

I also loved: Love in the time of Cholera (By GG Marquez)

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende

Memory of my sad whores by GG Marquez

All good books!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Simply love it, Ursula and her shrinking to the size of a raison whilst her husband tied to a tree for fifity years, what a lovely image!! The child born with the tail of a pig and how fantastic is the mirage ending!. Loved it loved it!!
Have you read the God of Small things by Arundhuti Roy!?!? Think you may like it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's high on my list too!.!. Although I had problems with identifying all Jose Arcadios and Aurelianos:))
I would recommend:
- The Plague - Albert Camus
- On love and other demons - G!. Garcia Marquez
- Master and Margarita - Mikhail Nabokov
- Sinuhe the Egyptian - Mika Waltari
- Name of the Rose - Umberto EcoWww@QuestionHome@Com

Yes, it's fantastic, I love his work!. Have you read much DH Lawrence!?Not exactlty the same I know but still there is a slightly surreal feeling to the books, particulary The Rainbow!. So many books, such little time!Www@QuestionHome@Com

How about the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges!? If you liked the surrealism of GGM, you'll love Borges's short stories!.

Try Julio Cortazar as well!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You could try

The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura EsquivelWww@QuestionHome@Com

Nope!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

NopeWww@QuestionHome@Com