One Hundred Years of Solitude

signing the Treaty of
Neerlandia, which put an end
to almost twenty years of
civil war. He shot himself in
the chest with a pistol and the
bullet came out through his
back without damaging any
vital organ. The only thing
left of all that was a street that
bore his name in Macondo.
And yet, as he declared a few
years before he died of old
age, he had not expected any
of that on the dawn he left