One character in this work is tied down to a tree for the remainder of his 
One character in this work is tied down to a tree for the remainder of his life because he believes that the same day continues to repeat itself. The final part of this novel sees the boy with a pig-tail being eaten by ants, fulfilling the prophecy of a traveling gypsy from this work. Permanent Ash-Wednesday crosses grace the foreheads of seventeen characters who are destined to die in this work, and they are all the children of the revolutionary Colonel Aureliano. This work is set in the town of Macondo and focuses on the lives of the Buendia family, whose matriarch Ursula Iguaran lives to be over a century old. For 10 points, identify this novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
One character in this work is tied down to a tree for the remainder of his life because he believes that the same day continues to repeat itself.
One {Hundred Years} of {Solitude} [accept {Cien años} de {soledad}]