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This novel ends with the realization that “races condemned … did not have a second opportunity on earth” in Gregory (-5[1])Rabassa’s (10[1])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 marriage curses a family (10[1])in this novel that (10[1])has seventeen sons with the same name and a baby with a pig’s tail. (10[1])In this novel, (-5[1])Melquiades is the first to be buried in a town founded by José Arcadio (10[1])Buendía. (10[1])For 10 (10[1])points, name this magical realist novel set in Macondo by Gabriel García (10[1])Márquez. ■END■

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