100yearsofsolitude

“Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano Jos had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.“ “It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay. It was an intricate stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of Jos Arcadio Buenda with impatience and made him wander all through the house even in broad daylight.“ “They were new gypsies, young men and women who knew only their own language, handsome specimens with oily skins and intelligent hands, whose dances and music sowed a panic of uproarious joy through the streets, with parrots painted all colors reciting Italian arias, and a hen who laid a hundred golden eggs to the sound of a tambourine, and a trained monkey who read minds.“ Copyright: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude is a mesmerizing story about the village of Macondo. It blurs historical events and myths making the village seem like a magical place in which something wonderful or dreadful happens everyday. There people experience true, passionate love, which last their entire lifetime and despair that makes them take their own lives. I've read very many books in my lifetime, but this book is closest to my heart. No matter how many times I read it I never get tired of it and always find new insights and themes to the book. that I missed the previous time. ie5.jpg ie6.jpg ie7.jpg Le Despedida by Shakira (youtube) 100, gabriel, garcia, marquez, of, OF, solitude, years