This entire library is filled with 'One Hundred Years Of Solitude'


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Colombian book collector Salazar, who claims to own the largest collection of 'One Hundred Years Of Solitude' in the world, has copies in Tamil, Armenian, Azeri and 45 other languages. Photo: AFP

An entire library dedicated to just one book: Colombian Jorge Ivan Salazar has collected copies of One Hundred Years Of Solitude by compatriot author Gabriel Garcia Marquez for 16 years.

Salazar has 379 editions of Garcia Marquez's masterpiece in nearly 50 languages, including a first edition printed in 1967: "my favorite".

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