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This novel ends with the realization that “races condemned … did not have a second opportunity on earth” (10[1])in Gregory Rabassa’s translation. After dreaming of a ghost he killed, a character in this novel travels until he dreams of a “city built with mirrors.” One of this novel’s Segundo twins dies reading of a massacre he witnessed in a Romani (10[1])scholar’s parchments. Úrsula’s incestuous marriage curses a family in this novel (10[1])that has seventeen sons with the same name and a baby with (-5[1])a pig’s tail. In this novel, Melquiades is the first to be buried in a town founded by José Arcadio Buendía. For 10 points, name this magical realist novel set in Macondo by Gabriel García Márquez. (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

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