Solitude in Title????

I think my librarian confused the titles of two books and left me searching. I asked her about A Hundred Years of Solitude and she described it as a fantasy story about a plane crash with a young boy being the only survivor. He develops his mind and becomes a wizard (????). The library does not have a copy of Forced Solitude and she does not remember the book she looked up when she described it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure what's going on. You have a correct title for One Hundred Years of Solitude but did you really want the boy wizard book?

This is probably way off... The boy surviving the plane crash sounds a bit like an old tv movie, Mandrake. Mandrake is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Himalayas. Tibetan monks find him and bring him to their secret valley. There he learns the skills of an an ancient wizard, Theron. Later he leaves and battles evil. It was based of an old comic strip, Mandrake the Magician.

>2 vorkosigan: Yep, looks like it. The librarian described another book, which sounded interesting to the OP, but it's not One Hundred Years of Solitude, so they're wondering which book the description really corresponds to - and the confusion probably came from the unknown work having a similar/overlapping title. Very interesting puzzle!

There's some overlap with Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, which in its second half gets very postmodern and involves some superhero stuff with a magic ring, but I don't know if the plane-crash bit matches.

I think I remember Mandrake and The Fortress of Solitude sounds interesting so it goes my reading list.

I've tried every internet search I can think of and can't find any book with that description. So, like looking for that bolt I dropped or that jar of pickles in the cabinet, I'll stop looking and it will appear all by itself. (Probably in the washing machine or behind the mayonnaise.)