The first paperback edition of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by García Márquez arrives in Japan

Tokyo (Japan), June 26 (EFE).- The first paperback edition in Japanese of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, arrived this Wednesday in Japanese bookstores, in a sign of the growing interest in Latin American literature and this work of … cult in the Asian country. Groups of Japanese readers gathered today before the opening in front of the doors of the famous Kinokuniya bookstore, in the Tokyo neighborhood of Shinjuku, to purchase first thing in the morning this new paperback edition, which they had been waiting for years. “It is a work that is used as material for university classes and I wanted to read it, so now that it has come out in pocket, I am encouraged,” Sho Furukawa, a 20-year-old student of Literature and Italian, explains to EFE. . IMAGES: EDURNE MORILLO. IMAGES OF KINOKUNIYA BOOKSTORE, IN THE SHINJUKU NEIGHBORHOOD, IN TOKYO, AND OF THE BOOK. TOTALS OF SHO FURUKAWA, A 20-YEAR-OLD STUDENT OF LITERATURE AND ITALIAN. Translation of the totals: (1) “It is a work that is used as material for university classes and I wanted to read it, so now that it has been released in pocket, I am encouraged.” (2) “I think he is an important figure in the literature of the second half of the 20th century.”