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patwilson621 's review for:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Clearly this story is supposed to be some type of meaningful allegory for the history, perhaps of the authors country. However, lacking any understanding of what it is an allegory of makes it largely indecipherable. I definitely saw some analogs to South American history, with banana plantations, unions, union massacres, the railroad, final abandonment of a town unusable for exploitation, and the final analysis that it was all more or less meaningless made it difficult for me to like. I prefer The Satanic Verses, or War and Peace.