One Hundred Years of Solitude

the twilight of her maturity,
without giving her money or
love and only occasionally
pleasure. Her five daughters,
who inherited a burning seed,
had been lost on the byways
of life since adolescence. Of
the two sons she managed to
raise, one died fighting in the
forces of Colonel Aureliano
Buendía and the other was
wounded and captured at the
age of fourteen when he tried
to steal a crate of chickens in