“The uncertainty of the future made them turn their hearts toward the past. They saw themselves in the lost paradise of the deluge, splashing in the puddles in the courtyard, killing lizards to hang on Úrsula, pretending that they were going to bury her alive, and those memories revealed to them the truth that they had been happy together ever since they had had memory.”
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez's classic work weaves together magical realism and historical events, chronicling the rise and fall of the Buendía family and the development of the town of Macondo. more
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