One Hundred Years of Solitude

one occasion she lost her fountain pen. Two weeks later the mailman, who had found it in ...

it to do something and when she went back to her room she not only did not find the letter she had start ...

go to the kitchen or the toilet, and that he was not a man to play tricks. So in the end she believed that ...

normally wrote. The problems were not solved overnight, because a few hours after she had t ...

nor José Arcadio in Rome ever heard about those insignificant misfortunes. Fernanda told them that ...

endless correspondence made her lose her sense of time, especially after Santa Sofía de la Piedad had ...

another that one could not feel them pass. Instead of becoming impatient, she felt a deep pleas ...

spiral stairway that led to the throne of Saint Peter. On the other hand, her spirits rose with n ...

had not taken into account in his calculations. More than three years had passed since Santa Sof ...

mean anything: the lines were in code. Aureliano lacked the means to establish the keys that would p ...

finally defeated it, he thought about the best way to frame the request, but when he found Fernanda t ...

letters from her children and to give hers to the mailman, and he listened until late at night to th ...

permission would be granted that one morning he cut his hair, which at that time reached down ...

stony gait, did not arrive, but an old woman of supernatural beauty with a yellowed ermine cape, a crown ...

her own regal gestures, would have had reason to think that she was mad. But she was not. She ...

her house to make her a queen, and her soul brightened with the nostalgia of her lost dreams. She f ...

parvenus. Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily realit ...

with a hallucinated glow in his eyes, the claws of ridicule tore at her. Not only did she refuse hi ...

the world, the habit of obedience had dried up the seeds of rebellion in his heart. So that he wen ...

bedroom and saw her lying on the bed covered with the ermine cape, more beautiful than ever and ...