The arrival of the gypsy writer Melquiades begins this novel's bizarre sequence of events, starting with the discovery of ice by Aureliano and his father. Other characters include the lonely ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, who searches for water to clean a ghastly wound, and a woman who ascends to heaven while doing her laundry. The entire population of the central village is 
The arrival of the gypsy writer Melquiades begins this novel's bizarre sequence of events, starting with the discovery of ice by Aureliano and his father. Other characters include the lonely ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, who searches for water to clean a ghastly wound, and a woman who ascends to heaven while doing her laundry. The entire population of the central village is struck with insomnia. A tropical storm takes five years to dissipate and in the end a hurricane erases all traces of Macondo, and Buendía faces a firing squad. This is the magic realist plot of, FTP, what famous novel by Gabriel García Márquez?
The arrival of the gypsy writer Melquiades begins this novel's bizarre sequence of events, starting with the discovery of ice by Aureliano and his father.
{One Hundred Years of Solitude} or {Cien años de soledad}