One Hundred Years of Solitude

José Arcadio, Buendía nor Úrsula remembered having any relatives with those names, nor did they ...

large, startled eyes without giving any sign of understanding what they were asking her. She w ...

mounted on a backing of copper as an amulet against the evil eye. Her greenish skin, her stomach, r ...

she wanted some water and she moved her eyes as if she recognized them and said yes with her head. They ...

reaction from any one of them. Since there was no cemetery in Macondo at that time, for no one ...

the family. She would sit in her small rocker sucking her finger in the most remote corner of the house. Nothi ...

Indians, who were aware of everything, for they went ceaselessly about the house on their stealt ...

trying to put away supplies so that she could eat when no one was looking. From then on th ...

forced to use more drastic methods. She put some orange juice and rhubarb into a pan that she left ...

rebellious and strong in spite of her frailness that they had to tie her up like a calf to make ...

language. When Úrsula discovered that, she added whipping to the treatment. It was never established wheth ...

utensils properly. It was soon revealed that she spoke Spanish with as much fluency as the Indian ...

any of her own children had been, and she called Arcadio, and Amaranta brother and sister, Aureliano uncle, a ...

vice of eating earth and was brought to sleep in the other childrens room, the Indian woman, who slept wi ...

her fate, Visitación recognized in those eyes the symptoms of the sickness whose threat had obliged her an ...

told her that the lethal sickness would follow her, no matter what, to the farthest corner of ...

for the body did not feel any fatigue at all, but its inexorable evolution toward a more critical manif ...

until he sank into a kind of idiocy that had no past. José Arcadio Buendía, dying with laughter, t ...

have died down, José Arcadio Buendía found himself rolling over in bed, unable to fall asleep. Úrsula, wh ...

well in spite of the fact that he had spent the whole night in the laboratory gilding a brooch that ...