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By blending myth and reality, García Márquez uses Macondo as a stand-in for all of Latin America, creating an intimate setting to discuss a whole region’s complicated politics.
Beyond Macondo, what’s most memorable for many of us is García Márquez’s use of magical realism, including a rain of yellow flowers after the family’s
patriarch dies. “They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors.
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