The book behind Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of magic realism - here’s why I love it
Now, Netflix has accepted the challenge. The author’s sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha, are executive producers of the 16-part adaptation which was filmed in the Columbian Andes. Based on the Nobel Prize winning novel, the series tells the story of the Buendía family in the fictional Colombian town of Macondo.