Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 magnum opus, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” has long been considered one of the greatest works of modern literature. However, during Márquez’s life,

Based on Gabriel García Márquez's 1967 masterpiece, the Colombian drama follows several generations of the Buendía family and the fictional town of Macondo.

Such is the reverence with which Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel prize-winning novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is held that surely trying to turn its towering themes and magic-realist imagination into a TV series would have to be a fool’s game.