Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

I first read One Hundred Years of Solitude during my first year at university when I was supposed to be doing actual course work. While I cannot claim to have grasped the significance of Gabriel García Marquez’s masterpiece at the time, I did know that it would have a lasting impact on fiction. A trailer for Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude has recently been released. The series adaptation of the groundbreaking novel launches on the streamer later this year.

The Spanish-language series was filmed in Colombia with support from the family of García Marquez, whose acclaimed novel has sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into 40 languages. Netflix released a brief teaser in 2022 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of García Marquez winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, but the new teaser reveals much more.