One Hundred Years of Solitude

return. The search for and
extermination of the
hoodlums, murderers,
arsonists, and rebels of
Decree No. 4 was still going
on, but the military denied it
even to the relatives of the
victims who crowded the
commandants offices in
search of news. You must
have been dreaming, the
officers insisted. Nothing has
happened in Macondo,
nothing has ever happened,