Leaf Storm: And Other Stories (Perennial Classics) - Softcover

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006075155X ISBN 13: 9780060751555

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2005

Synopsis

The acclaimed short stories of a modern master." "Leaf Storm" brings together both Garcia Marquez's early and late styles. The former deserves our respect; the latter requires our celebration."-- "Newsweek"

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Review:

"For Garcí a Má rquez the world contains mysteries that we need and can easily live with, but also miracles that we cannot understand, that speak for forces unknown to men. 'Leaf Storm, ' then, brings together both Garcí a Má rquez's early and late styles. The former deserves our respect; the latter requires our celebration."-- Peter S. Prescott, "Newsweek""To call these allegories would be to suggest that they are 'symbolic' somehow and perhaps plainly stated. They ore not; the texture is that of the prose poem, and the intention a restatement of religious belief. But the feeling one comes away with is that of enchantment, which is a sense of having endured terror and magic." -- Paul Theroux, "Chicago Tribune""Garcí a Má rquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform. Strange things happen in the land of Má rquez. As with Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, every sentence breaks the silence of a vast emptiness, the famous New World 'solitude' that is the unconscious despair of his characters but the sign of Má rquez's genius." -- Alfred Kazin, "The New York Times Book Review"

About the Author:

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia.Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since he passed away in April 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 006075155X
• ISBN 13: 9780060751555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146