Explores the link between mind and body, and shows how to become a survivor.

Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control.

Presents his view of the nature of love involving the whole personality and an orientation toward life.

The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family.