A figure known as the Wandering Jew is found in the streets during a heat wave, and Meme's lover Mauricio Babilonia is shot by her guard.
One character in this work loses an eating contest to a woman called the Elephant, and another takes a black lover with the name Nigromanta. Foreign characters include Gaston, who returns to Belgium late in the novel to start an airmail company, and Pietro Crespi, an Italian musician who commits suicide after failing to marry the orphan Rebeca. A figure known as the Wandering Jew is found in the streets during a heat wave, and Meme's lover Mauricio Babilonia is shot by her guard. Melquíades is a gypsy whose prophecies are finally decoded by Aureliano II, revealing the foretold history of Macondo. FTP, name this novel about the Buendía family and the titular time period, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
One character in this work loses an eating contest to a woman called the Elephant, and another takes a black lover with the name Nigromanta.
{One Hundred Years of Solitude} (Cien años de solidad)