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

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