One Hundred Years of Solitude

mothers. The three days that
they stayed in the house, to
the satisfaction of Úrsula and
the scandal of Fernanda, were
like a state war. Amaranta
searched among old papers
for the ledger where Úrsula
had written down the names
and birth and baptism dates of
all of them, and beside the
space for each one she added
his present address. That list
could well have served as a
recapitulation of twenty years