The central character of this work bears 17 identically-named children and founds a town named (*) Macondo.
One character in this novel asks his recently-divorced wife to send him his velocipede, and another floats up into the sky while folding a sheet. That former character, the Belgian Gaston, was married to Amaranta Ursula, whose affair with her nephew produced a child with a pig's tail who is devoured by ants. The central character of this work bears 17 identically-named children and founds a town named (*) Macondo. It begins with a character facing the firing squad and remembering when his father took him to see ice for the first time. Following generations of the Buendia family is, for ten points, what magical realism novel about Colonel Aureliano by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
One character in this novel asks his recently-divorced wife to send him his velocipede, and another floats up into the sky while folding a sheet.
One Hundred Years of Solitude (or Cien anos de soledad) &lt;MS&gt;