What is the author's style in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

Marquez is famous for his style of "magic realism." A term first used by Alejo Carpentier, magic or magical realism is a uniquely Latin American style of writing which does not differentiate fact from illusion or myth from truth. With its ghosts, magical gypsies, raining flowers, voracious ants, and impossible feats, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seminal example of magic realism. Garcia Marquez has explained that this type of writing is a natural result of being from a people with a vibrant ancestry.