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Forgetnew rules—Dua Lipa’s got a new read!
“This incredible novel put me under a spell,” Lipa says of the genre-defining book, which follows the story of one family through seven generations.
Lipa says that throughout the novel she found herself “reflecting on love and war, familial bonds, the consequences of modernity and of course, the many meanings of solitude.”
“It’s irresistible,” she finishes.
As with each of her book club’s monthly selections, shining a spotlight onOne Hundred Years of Solitudewill also include a discussion guide and bonus material, all of which will be published on her editorial platformService95.
Dua Lipa, founder and host of the Service95 book club.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
According to a press release, bonus content for García Márquez’s novel will include a short story and Colombian travel guide, “insights into his writing process and inspirations,” and an interview with the late author’s son Rodrigo about “the writer’s family dynamic.”
The book club will also publish “musings on the novel’s lasting legacy” from Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the Colombian writer behindThe Sound of Things FallingandThe Shape of the Ruins, per the release.
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Lipa’smonthly selectionsare intended to highlight the club’s belief that literature can “represent diverse global voices, telling powerful stories spanning fiction, memoir and manifesto,” per the platform’swebsite.
García Márquez has cemented himself as a classic author and cultural icon with not onlyOne Hundred Years of Solitudebut also his other novels, includingChronicle of a Death ForetoldandLove in the Time of Cholera, which earned him a funny nod inThe Simpsons.
He was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 for “his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent’s life and conflicts,” perthe Nobel Prize’s website.
Gabriel García Márquez.Ulf Andersen/Getty
Ulf Andersen/Getty
In October 2022, Netflix announced that it had acquired the rights to developan adaptation ofOne Hundred Years of Solitudein a video preview showcasing “preparations of the physical Macondo.”
Rodrigo, along with García Márquez’s other son Gonzalo, were named executive producers of the adaptation, which would be shot in Colombia, according toThe New York Times.
The Nobel Prize winner, who died in 2014, received many offers to adapt the film throughout the years and declined them over concern that — unlike some of his shorter books, which have been adapted — it would not fit nicely into a film or two, Gonzalo told the outlet. The author was also set on the story being told in its original language, Spanish.
According to Gonzalo, his family decided to sell the novel’s rights because “the level and prestige and success of series and limited series has grown so much” in recent years, perThe Times.
While the title islisted on the platform, there have been no further updates or announcements about the project.
source: people.com
