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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 he dreams of a “city built with mirrors.” One of this novel’s Segundo twins dies reading (-5[1])of a massacre he witnessed in a Romani scholar’s parchments. Úrsula’s (-5[1])incestuous marriage curses a family in this (-5[1])novel (10[1])that has seventeen sons with the same name (10[1])and a baby with a pig’s tail. (10[1])In this novel, (10[1])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 (10[1])Gabriel García (10[1]-5[1])Márquez. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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