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The Characters of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gaston
Oprah's Book Club  |  January 20, 2004
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The Belgian husband of Amaranta Úrsula, Gaston is loving and cultured but feels isolated in the now-desolate Macondo. He travels to Belgium to start an airmail company, and, when he hears of the relationship between his wife and Aureliano (II), he never returns.
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