One Hundred Years of Solitude

because of an immeasurable
exhaustion. Two years before,
far away from there, she had
fallen asleep without putting
out the candle and had
awakened surrounded by
flames. The house where she
lived with the grandmother
who had raised her was
reduced to ashes. Since then
her grandmother carried her
from town to town, putting
her to bed for twenty cents in
order to make up the value of