One Hundred Years of Solitude

visible was the ghost of José
Arcadio Buendía under the
chestnut tree. Fernanda
consolidated her authority.
Her monthly letters to her son
José Arcadio at that time did
not carry a string of lies and
she hid from him only her
correspondence with the
invisible doctors, who had
diagnosed a benign tumor in
her large intestine and were
preparing her for a telepathic
operation.