Leaf Storm and Other Stories

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

ISBN 10: 0060127791 / ISBN 13: 9780060127794

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1972

About this Item

Blue cloth with gilt lettering and green cover decoration. Hint of bump to head and heel of spine and tips of corners. Previous owner bookplate neatly adhered to front pastedown. Text is clean and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ with $6.50 price shows light rubbing to all edges, chips and small tears to head and heel of spine. "Leaf Storm (La Hojarsca) is the first book Márquez wrote. He began it when he was nineteen; it was published eith years later. Grim, iconic, powerful, Leaf Storm creates a mysterious and ominous atmosphere that lingers on the reader's mind. The six shorter stories are all marvelously original and different. They tell of such things as a drowned man whose appearance changes the life and patterns of a village, the strange last voyage of a ghost ship and a man with enormous wings. An experience that is enhanced by Gregory Rabassa's superb translation." (from the jacket). Seller Inventory # D90915

Bibliographic Details

Title: Leaf Storm and Other Stories

Publisher: Harper & Row, New York

Publication Date: 1972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: Stated First Edition.

About this title

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"

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"