Many libraries refused to carry the book. Copies were burned by those denouncing Steinbeck as a socialist. Reactions to the book were extremely divided. Its popularity led it to be made into a film the next year directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda. The book was the best-selling novel of 1939. However, they find only new problems upon arriving. With their farm devastated by the Dust Bowl, they join thousands of people like them west to California, an alleged land of milk and honey. The Grapes of Wrath follows the Joad family in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. One Hundred Years of Solitude is now considered a classic of Latin American literature and one of the best examples of magical realism. One review dismissed it as a “comic masterpiece.” Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz deemed it “watery poetry.” Anthony Burgess argued that it was not to be “compared with the genuinely literary explorations of Borges and Nabokov.” While the book helped Márquez earn a Nobel Prize for Literature and praise as “ The greatest Colombian who ever lived,” much of the initial critical reception to his masterpiece was negative.
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