Pearl reviews the fiction book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, presenting us with a brief summary of the plot and commenting that One Hundred Years of Solitude "records the tumultuous lives of the Buendia family and the town's other inhabitants in a compulsive narrative that follows their loves, madnesses, wars, alliances, compromises, dreams, and deaths-- sweeping us up in its exquisite and poetic rendering of the passions and the pains of life."