One Hundred Years of Solitude

river, Aureliano heard him
say: I have died of fever on
the dunes of Singapore. That
day he went into the water at
a bad spot and they did not
find him until the following
day, a few miles downstream,
washed up on a bright bend in
the river and with a solitary
vulture sitting on his stomach.
Over the scandalized protests
of Úrsula, who wept with
more grief than she had had
for her own father, José