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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.” (10[1])One of this novel’s Segundo twins dies reading of a massacre (10[1])he witnessed in a Romani scholar’s parchments. Úrsula’s incestuous marriage curses a family (10[1])in this novel that has (10[1])seventeen sons with the same name (10[1])and (10[1])a baby with a pig’s tail. (10[1])In this novel, Melquiades is the first to be buried in a town founded by José Arcadio Buendía. (10[1])For 10 points, name this magical realist novel (-5[1])set in Macondo by Gabriel García Márquez. ■END■ (10[1])

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