Round 9: Tossup 1

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

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