Considered impossible to film – by even Gabriel García Márquez himself – the series brings the mythical Macondo to life

With its generational narrative of love, betrayal and intrigue, and an epic backdrop of civil war and fantastical goings-on, One Hundred Years of Solitude was long considered to be an impossible novel to adapt to the screen.

The work’s author, Gabriel García Márquez, even claimed that the sprawling novel had been written precisely to prove that the written word had a vaster scope than the cinema.