In the long-awaited Netflix adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (“Cien Años de Soledad”), the literary masterpiece of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most ...

In Netflix's television adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" a family and country come apart at the seams.

The town of Macondo embodies the commitment Netflix made to the author’s family when it got the rights to the book in 2018. No series on this scale had been made in Colombia before.

What did it mean to create Macondo, the imaginary town at the heart of the novel, in the author’s home country? I flew from New York to Bogotá, then to the smaller city of Ibagué; Netflix had ...