One Hundred Years of Solitude

miraculous prosperity. The
adobe houses of the founders
had been replaced by brick
buildings with wooden blinds
and cement floors which
made the suffocating heat of
two oclock in the afternoon
more bearable. All that
remained at that time of José
Arcadio Buendías ancient
village were the dusty almond
trees, destined to resist the
most arduous of
circumstances, and the river