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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 scholar’s parchments. Úrsula’s incestuous (10[1])marriage (10[1])curses a family (10[1])in this (10[1])novel that has seventeen sons (10[2])with the same name and a baby with a pig’s tail. (10[1]-5[1])In this novel, Melquiades (10[1])is the first to be buried in a (10[1])town founded by José Arcadio Buendía. (10[1])For 10 points, name this magical realist novel set in Macondo by Gabriel García Márquez. ■END■ (10[1])

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