This novel is partly an autobiography and partly an epic novel, dealing with various social classes, starting in the year 1903. The novel combines different arts such as poetry, narration, love and passion versus revolution, war, separation and multi-layered nostalgia. The writer has succeeded in making the reader experience it. Because of the atmosphere of his fictional world and its expression in more than one way, and with the tight plot of his novel, it contributed to making it one of the most famous novels in the world.. It was turned into a successful movie that is considered one of the best. The greatest films in the history of world cinema.