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Gabriel García Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" brought Latin American literature to the forefront of the global imagination and earned García Márquez the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. What makes the novel so remarkable? Francisco DíezBuzo investigates.

Lesson by Francisco DíezBuzo, animation by Lucy Animation Studio.

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