One Hundred Years of Solitude

Babilonia, she was moved by his Innocence in expecting that she would keep the date. Meme knew at that ...

fluttered about her head while the lights were on. And then it happened. When the lights went out, Mauric ...

You never would have seen me again. Meme felt the weight of his hand on her knee and ...

him. She could not sleep and she lost her appetite and sank so deeply into solitude that even her ...

alone on the deserted fields behind the garage he pulled her mercilessly into an animal state that l ...

of lucidity within the madness and she trembled before the uncertainty of the future. Then she heard about ...

never would that the centenarian witch was her great-grandmother. Nor would she have believed it a ...

the poor judgment of a mechanic. She thought then that love on one side was defeating love ...

She also taught her how to avoid an unwanted conception by means of the evaporation of mustard plasters ...

While the nine nights lasted she did not once leave the side of Mauricio Babilonia, who mingled ...

able to get out she went straight to Pilar Terneras. She surrendered to Mauricio Babilonia, without ...

the innocent complicity of Aureliano Segundo, who believed without suspicion in his daughters alibis simply ...

locked up, trusting that she would reveal to him the confidences that she owed him. But Mem ...

Mauricio Babilonia, thinking that his authority as his former boss would make him desist from his ...

affliction. On the contrary, from the next room Úrsula perceived the peaceful rhythm of her sl ...

warning her about the scorpions, but Meme was so distant, convinced that she had given her away, that ...

terrible, she would say, All my life they told me that butterflies at night bring bad luck. One n ...

the mustard plasters that rolled onto the floor. She did not wait for an opportune moment as she ha ...

Babilonia as he was lifting up the tiles to get into the bathroom where Meme was waiting for him, ...

moment of betrayal, tormented by memories and by the yellow butterflies, who did not give him a moments peac ...