One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, BuendÃa, stands before the firing...
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