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Leaf Storm and Other Stories

Gabriel García Márquez

Paperback | Pages: 146 pages

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Title	:	Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Author	:	Gabriel García Márquez
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 146 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2005 by Harper Perennial (first published 1955)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Magical Realism. Classics. Cultural. Latin American

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Contains the Novella Leaf Storm: 'SUDDENLY, AS IF A WHIRLWIND HAD SET DOWN ROOTS IN THE CENTRE OF THE TOWN, THE BANANA COMPANY ARRIVED, PURSUED BY THE LEAF STORM' As a blizzard of warehouses and amusement parlours and slums descends on the small town of Macondo, the inhabitants reel at the accompanying stench of rubbish that makes their home unrecognisable. When the banana company leaves town as fast as it arrived, all they are left with is a void of decay. Living in this devastated and soulless wasteland is one last honourable man, the Colonel, who is determined to fulfil a long standing promise, no matter how unpalatable it may be. With the death of the detested Doctor, he must provide an honourable burial - and incur the wrath of the rest of Macondo, who would rather see the Doctor rot, forgotten and unattended. Also contains the stories: The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo, Nabo

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Original Title:	La hojarasca
ISBN:	006075155X (ISBN13: 9780060751555)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Macondo

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I have a great affection for Leaf Storm. And a great compassion for the guy who wrote it. I can see him clear as day: he's a boy of twenty-two, twenty-three, who thinks he's never going to write another thing in his life, this is his only chance, so he tries to put everything in, everything he remembers and everything he's learned about technique and literary craft in all the authors he's read. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez: El Manifesto (Bogotá, 1977) Leaf Storm (1955) is the story of a colonel, a

I absolutely adore Gabriel Garcia Marquez's stories, and it was The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World that I first read. After that, I read The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, and I was hooked. Marquez's use of language established perfectly understandable images that portrayed just what the story was trying to convey. I can't wait to read the rest of his stories.

from The Book Hooligan"Arriving there, mingled with the human leaf storm, dragged along by its impetuous force, came the dregs of warehouses, hospitals, amusement parlors, electric plants; the dregs made up of single women and men who tied their mules to hitching posts by the hotel, carrying their single piece of baggage, a wooden trunk or a bundle of clothing, and in a few months, each had his own house, two mistresses, and the military title that was due him for having arrived late for the

This is the first book I've ever read by Márquez, and it was a poignant introduction to his beautiful writing style and intriguing world. The main narrative arc deals with a leaf storm that has brought about intense destruction and change in the town of Macondo. In the town a doctor has just died, and the Colonel is determined to provide the man with an honourable burial, even though the doctor was disliked by the town. Death is certainly a force that permeates the book - there is both the

I was not particularly touched by the story told by the three voices of this novel, but I was not insensitive either to the pen of the author. A strange feeling, mixed so.In a remote village, once a prosperous banana plantation, a suicide death awaits its burial. Now, the villagers' persistent contempt for the dead has delayed events. A man is however eager to honor the promise made to his former friend. His daughter and grandson are also present, watching, patient, telling...Loneliness,

This is a novella of 100 pages and six short stories by the master. The novella of the title is a strange story, essentially a fantasy. A family in a small town in Colombia has taken in two people, a young Indian woman and a man who supposedly used to be a doctor. They dont even learn his name for five years. Every day the woman of the house cooks him grass soup. Grass like mules eat. The doctor earns the animosity of the town by refusing to help seriously injured people who were shot. Later the

I particularly enjoy García Márquez in short segments, which is why I find all of his short stories to be absolutely amazing...particularly if one has lived in or visited South America.