One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Imagine the virtuosity that is required of a writer to write something that's been called "the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race", and that has been attributed as the definitive novel about the colonial history of Colombia. Imagine being a writer considered to be at the forefront of a particular style of literature. But you really don't have to imagine, you just have to read One Hundred Years of Solitude, a true masterpiece written by a writer who has secured his place in literary Valhalla.