One Hundred Years of Solitude

finding it, at the cost of
countless sacrifices and
suffering, and to have found
it all of a sudden without
looking for it, as if it lay
across his path like an
insurmountable object. Many
years later Colonel Aureliano
Buendía crossed the region
again, when it was already a
regular mail route, and the
only part of the ship he found
was its burned-out frame in
the midst of a field of