One Hundred Years of Solitude

that Macondo had been a
prosperous place and well on
its way until it was disordered
and corrupted and suppressed
by the banana company,
whose engineers brought on
the deluge as a pretext to
avoid promises made to the
workers. Speaking with such
good sense that to Fernanda
he was like a sacrilegious
parody of Jews among the
wise men, the child described
with precise and convincing