I just finished Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude. I absolutely love it, it’s my kind of book, a fever dream in which decades pass like minutes with a story that invokes a deeply hidden sense of wonder. And then I got to the end and I just feel completely empty from a literary journey that felt so real.

I was hoping ya’ll could suggest me a book to fill the void left behind.

Thanks

  • ksarlathotep@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well the other Garcia Marquez books are a good place to start. I really enjoyed Love In The Time Of Cholera.

    But if you’re looking for something by a different author, I’d recommend Isabel Allende. Start with her first work, The House Of The Spirits. It has the same sort of scale, the same tenuous realism, the same breadth of characters and personalities, the same subtle poetry to the writing itself, and it’s comparable in size.

  • reallyjustforlurking@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I totally suggest House of the Spirits as others have suggested. Much milder on the magical realism, but there’s something wonderful about the way the prose flows in Spanish, not sure if that came through in the translation but the story is great.

    Alternately if you want a multi-generational epic with fully developed characters, many who “grow up” and lose childhood innocence during the story, I would suggest East of Eden.

  • MysticBounce@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley. It’s a retelling of Noah’s Ark in a way I find similar to One Years of Solitude. Fantastical, but also very brutal.

  • NinaSee@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende has a similar vibe it’s a multigenerational fantasy.

  • prustage@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I could suggest Love in the Time of Cholera - also by Marquez. Excellent book but I wouldnt say it had that much in common with 100 years.