An interweaving tale of the inevitably of time. The prose is beautiful and the characters shown throughout the book paint a vivid, beautiful and terrifying world.

Garcia Marquez explores themes of war, love, suffering and inevitability as he follows a family tree down the generations. It explores the civilians caught up in war and how they try to carry on with their lives in spite of it, and the generals in the war and how it changes people.

I would implore people to read the book themselves without reading reviews, it cannot do a book like this justice, it spawned a genre called Magical Realism and it deserves to be called a classic.