One Hundred Years of Solitude

One had to see only the days
of sun and dew that poor José
Arcadio Buendía went
through under the chestnut
tree and all the time weeded
to mourn his death before
they brought in a dying
Colonel Aureliano Buendía,
who after so much war and so
much suffering from it was
still not fifty years of age. In
other times, after spending
the whole day making candy
animals, she had more than