One Hundred Years of Solitude

him into a stranger in the end.
The last time that he was in
Macondo and took a house
for his three concubines, he
was seen in his own house
only on two or three
occasions when he had the
time to accept an invitation to
dine. Remedios the Beauty
and the twins, born during the
middle of the war, scarcely
knew him. Amaranta could
not reconcile her image of the
brother who had spent his