This was lovely. Plot-wise, so much happened in this book that by the time I finished it, and reconsidered the beginning, it felt like (a significant amount of) time had passed. It's a book with weight. I know Carpentier was the one to come up with the term "magical/marvelous real," but what Marquez is doing here is what I think of when I think of magical realism. This was easy to read, but also feels super thick in places. Find someone to talk about this with. It gets richer the more you dig into it.