One Hundred Years of Solitude

this squandering in the other
life. Her prayers were
answered in reverse. One of
the workmen removing the
bills bumped into an
enormous plaster statue of
Saint Joseph that someone
had left in the house during
the last years of the war and
the hollow figure broke to
pieces on the floor. It had
been stuffed with gold coins.
No one could remember who
had brought that life-sized