One Hundred Years of Solitude

concubines bed. Petra Cotes
had shined his patent leather
boots that he wanted to wear
in his coffin, and she was
already looking for someone
to take them when they came
to tell her that Aureliano
Segundo was out of danger.
He did recover, indeed, in
less than a week, and two
weeks later he was
celebrating the fact of his
survival with unprecedented
festivities. He continued