Unless two members of the Buendia family get to face a firing squad, page 96 of the Harper Perennial edition of 100 Years of Solitude includes an error in naming Arcadio rather than Aureliano as the man so honored: "She was the last person Arcadio thought about a few years later when he faced the firing squad."
Seeing that Marquez has reminded us a couple times of the hopelessness of avoiding the issue by referring to his opening line, I am inclined to take it as a typeset error. Although with this family, it would not seem strange or too conveniently coincidental that at least two would come to such an end.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
My memory is vague of this wonderfully dizzying book, but I don’t think it’s a typo.
Ah, a writer’s trick perhaps?