One Hundred Years of Solitude

examining with scientific interest the inside of houses in ruin, the metal screens on the windows brok ...

houses of which, destroyed by rye grass, he found the skeleton of a German shepherd dog still tie ...

and that Macondo finally had peace after many years. Those wanderings led him to the prostrate red-light distr ...

the pale, fat widows of no one, the French great- grandmothers and the Babylonian matriarchs, we ...

who was still singing the mournful sunset psalms in the door of his house. Aureliano would talk to ...

armored with a hard surface of wiry hair which looked like a medieval warriors mail headdress. He ...

away and he would take them to Nigromanta to make her soups, fortified with purslane and seasoned with ...

head soup and other dainties of misery, and he would have kept right on if she had not let him know that ...

returned to Macondo and gave him a sisterly embrace that left him breathless. Every time he saw ...

the innocent flattery of that aunt who was poisoning his nights with a flow of tribulation, ...

unhinged bellies broke the bottles and ended up making love in a pool of muriatic acid. Aureliano n ...

peso and fifty cents that he had asked Amaranta Úrsula for, not so much because he needed it as ...

dismiss him as if he were a frightened child, and suddenly it found a man whose tremendous power demanded ...

waiting for him, to teach him first how to do it like earthworms, then like snails, and finally like ...

Almost always, between loves, they would eat naked in the bed, in the hallucinating heat and ...

confided in her about his repressed passion for Amaranta Úrsula, which he had not been able to ...

would make an addition to his bill, which was not figured in numbers but by marks that she made with ...

read or write or even think because of the anxiety brought on by the laughter, the whispering, the ...

found four ranting boys in a heated argument about the methods used to kill cockroaches in the Middle ...

insect on the face of the earth, had already been the victim of slippers in the Old Testament, but ...