Filmmakers Laura Mora and Alex García López clearly have great reverence for the work, and perhaps it needs this literal translation to screen.

Based on Gabriel García Márquez's 1967 masterpiece, the Colombian drama follows several generations of the Buendía family and the fictional town of Macondo.

The book behind Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of magic realism - here’s why I love it - The seminal novel follows seven generations of the Buendía family in an isolated town

Such is the reverence with which Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel prize-winning novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is held that surely trying to turn its towering themes and magic-realist imagination into a TV series would have to be a fool’s game.

Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 magnum opus, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” has long been considered one of the greatest works of modern literature. However, during Márquez’s life,