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| Original Title: | La hojarasca |
| ISBN: | 006075155X (ISBN13: 9780060751555) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Macondo |
Gabriel García Márquez
Paperback | Pages: 146 pages Rating: 3.67 | 10495 Users | 638 Reviews
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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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| Title | : | Leaf Storm and Other Stories |
| Author | : | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First 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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Ratings: 3.67 From 10495 Users | 638 ReviewsWrite-Up Out Of Books Leaf Storm and Other Stories
What can I say? There is a reason that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a master. He didnt just have a unique and powerful way of writing, he also had a unique and powerful way of seeing the world around him.I am also reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Life by Gerald Martin. It has been a fascinating journey, reading Leaf Storm as I read about the early years of his life in Colombia and traveling in Europe, what used to be the U.S.S.R., the United States, and Cuba. It was easy to give this book 5 stars.After one hunderd years of solitude and cronicle of a death foretold this is my third favorite book of Marquez. And i got the same taste in this book as after one hunders years of solitude. Also this book is mysterious as much as cronicle of a death foretold. Therefore it is actuall difficult to unhand this book. It is impressive that this book is the first book of marquez. Such a talent !
Leaf Storm, and Other Stories, Gabriel García Márquez Leaf Storm is the common translation for Gabriel García Márquez's novella La Hojarasca. First published in 1955, it took seven years to find a publisher. Widely celebrated as the first appearance of Macondo, the fictitious village later made famous in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Leaf Storm is a testing ground for many of the themes and characters later immortalized in said book. It is also the title of a short story collection by García
Marquez has a very particular way that carries you further into his world of fantasy and solitude, which in turn, takes me further into my own world. Some of his best short stories are in this collection.
This short story collection contains some of the best stories by Marquez: The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (a nod to the Hungarian sentence. Halalcsillag means death star).Other stories like Monologue of Isabel Watching it Rain in Mocondo and Nabo appear also in the short story collection The Eyes of a Blue Dog, but they fit much better under the umbrella of Leaf Storm and the atmosphere the book creates as a whole.
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.
The plot of the story was completely uninteresting but surprisingly I liked this book. I liked the way the writer describes time, you almost feel as it is stuck in the slow life of Macondo like in a jar of honey. I liked the way how masterfully he tells the story of a doctor speaking from three different people of three consecutive generations of the same family.
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