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This novel ends with the realization that “races condemned … did not have a second opportunity (10[1])on earth” 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 (10[1])Segundo twins (10[1])dies reading (10[1])of a massacre he witnessed in a Romani (10[1])scholar’s parchments. Úrsula’s incestuous marriage (10[1])curses a family in this novel that has (10[1])seventeen sons with the same name (10[2])and a baby (10[1])with a pig’s tail. (10[1])In this novel, Melquiades (10[1])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. ■END■

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