One Hundred Years of Solitude

version of the floating basket.
Aureliano Segundo, having
broken finally with his wife
because of the irrational way
in which she handled Memes
tragedy, did not know of the
existence of his grandson
until three years after they
brought him home, when the
child escaped from captivity
through an oversight on
Fernandas part and appeared
on the porch for a fraction of
a second, naked, with matted