One Hundred Years of Solitude

God to send her back her
sheets. Most people believed
in the miracle and they even
lighted candles and celebrated
novenas. Perhaps there might
have been talk of nothing else
for a long time if the
barbarous extermination of
the Aurelianos had not
replaced amazement with
honor. Although he had never
thought of it as an omen,
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
had foreseen the tragic end of