One Hundred Years of Solitude

and indefinite postponement.
One week before the date set
for the wedding, little
Remedios woke up in the
middle of the night soaked in
a hot broth which had
exploded in her insides with a
kind of tearing belch, and she
died three days later,
poisoned by her own blood,
with a pair of twins crossed in
her stomach. Amarante
suffered a crisis of
conscience. She had begged