One Hundred Years of Solitude

places where the family could
sit with all of their guests,
nine bedrooms with windows
on the courtyard and a long
porch protected from the heat
of noon by a rose garden with
a railing on which to place
pots of ferns and begonias.
She had the kitchen enlarged
to hold two ovens. The
granary where Pilar Ternera
had read José Arcadios future
was torn down and another
twice as large built so that