One Hundred Years Of Solitude finally shares release date
The series adapted from Gabriel García Marquez's masterpiece hits Netflix December 11
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“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” So reads one of the most famous opening lines in all of literature, at the outset of Gabriel García Marquez’s 1967 masterpiece, One Hundred Years Of Solitude. Now, fans in some parts of the country will get to look back and remember the distant afternoon when they watched the groundbreaking novel’s first page-to-screen adaptation while looking out at ice-covered yards of their own. Part one of Netflix’s 16-episode One Hundred Years Of Solitude adaptation comes to the streamer December 11.
A summary of the Netflix series reads as follows: “Married against their parents’ wishes, cousins José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán leave their village behind and embark on a long journey in search of a new home. Accompanied by friends and adventurers, their journey culminates with the founding of a utopian town on the banks of a river of prehistoric stones that they baptize Macondo. Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war, and the fear of a terrible curse that condemns them, without hope, to one hundred years of solitude.”