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Leaf Storm and Other Stories
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...more
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...more
Paperback, 146 pages
Published
February 1st 2005
by Harper Perennial
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Feb 27, 2008
melissa/missy
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4 of 5 stars
Recommended to melissa/missy by:
Kyoko Mori
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I liked every single story in this book. Every story made me feel simultaneously desperate and thrilled. I love the unabashed embracing of myth and mystery, the adventurous use of language (like in "The Last Ghost Ship," a six-page story constructed of a single sentence and only one period), and the unflinching examination of the human condition. I don't know how Garcia Marquez does it, but I am so glad he does.
The scenes of the Colonel and the Doctor fully demonstrates a remarkably controlled style of writing which is a joy to unravel sentence after sentence:
"But on that last night on the veranda, one of the hottest and heaviest I can remember, he seemed understanding as on few occasions. The only thing that seemed alive in the midst of that immense oven was the dull reverberation of the crickets, aroused by the thirst of nature, and the tiny, insignificant, and yet measureless activity of the rosema...more
I inherited this book from my boyfriend, who bought it after I introduced him to One Hundred Years of Solitude. His favourite story was "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" about an old man that is found in a town and abused as a public spectacle despite his angel-like qualities and the positive effect he has on the lives of those who found him. I also enjoyed "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" and "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World," the former about a man ostracized by society for what...more
Dec 27, 2007
Nathan
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4 of 5 stars
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Leaf Collectors
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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.
What can I say?
There is a reason that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a master. He didn’t 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...more
There is a reason that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a master. He didn’t 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...more
i will read anything marquez writes......grocery list, doodles, short story, novel.....
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"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 war...more
"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 war...more
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I had the same reaction to this book that I recently had to the film Up: can't say it isn't well done, but boy does it leave me cold. I prefer Marquez in a longer form, where his vision of the human world layered with magical folklore has more space to develop, to find an even balance between surreal happenings and real human feeling.
The novella "Leaf Storm" is almost entirely realistic, separating it from the more popular shorter pieces in this collection and from the magic that Marquez is kno...more
The novella "Leaf Storm" is almost entirely realistic, separating it from the more popular shorter pieces in this collection and from the magic that Marquez is kno...more
Reading the first story in this book required some patience. Marquez maintains a firm control over the regulation of narrative information. There is little conventional exposition; narrative events are represented in a fragmented and oblique form, through the consciousnesses of those characters through whom the narratives are focalized. Thus, the reader has to reconstruct the narrative events from the characters' impressions. Moreover, there are frequent flashbacks; thus, the reader has also to...more
dapet edisi indonesia nya *baru ngeh ada terjemahannya*
inilah hasil usaha dan kerja keras "ngintil" si aldo. cukup ngintil aja gak usah ikut ngaduk2 rak bukunya di palasari :))
Dari hasil "adukan" dan "acakan" dia munculah buku ini terselip diantara tumpukan buku2 yang dah dekil dan buluk
*melrik durjana ke yang nyimpen buku ini di wishlist nya*
inilah hasil usaha dan kerja keras "ngintil" si aldo. cukup ngintil aja gak usah ikut ngaduk2 rak bukunya di palasari :))
Dari hasil "adukan" dan "acakan" dia munculah buku ini terselip diantara tumpukan buku2 yang dah dekil dan buluk
*melrik durjana ke yang nyimpen buku ini di wishlist nya*
Sep 30, 2012
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I was reading this as a way to check myself while reading the original Leaf Storm in Spanish. I don't remember if I read the other stories in it at the same time, but I know the contents had a few that I had already read in various Spanish classes, so I'm going to guess that I never totally finished this and need to.
Before there was Quentin Tarantino, there was Gabriel Marcia Marquez. The first short story in this collection features overlapping re-tellings of the same series of events from different perspectives, interspersed with flashbacks that give the backgrounds. A little difficult to keep track of some time, but an impressive accomplishment.
I think, when I re-read this, I am going to do it one story at a time. All of the stories are, as is typical for Marquez, layered and thoughtful and force you to actually consider the words you're reading - but reading them all in a row was too much. I'd like to take a little more time to actually digest each story before reading the next.
For class. I did not like the novella; I felt it rambled and did not resolve. I liked the Blacaman story best because of its strange, creepy feel. It was like something to tell around a campfire, or a piece of a larger book.
I read this ages ago, I must get my hands on it & reread it. I especially liked the story titled: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. It has been one of those stories that has stayed with me in wisps.
This is one of my favorite collections, primarily because it includes the story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings". That story has been one of my favorites since I was young.
Aside from 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wing' and 'The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World' the rest of the stories are pretty vapid. I felt that the other stories lacked the material it takes to make a short story feel full. This is the first thing I've read from Marquez and after all the hype, I'm left unimpressed.
this is the collection with the story of the old-man angel who fell to earth and was kept in the chicken coop. all of the other stories were beautiful as well.
Even though we all love The Man With Enormous Wings, the doctor in Leaf Storm is one of the most interesting and melancholic characters ever. Agree?
I can't remember this book - apart from - the incredibly old man with the enormous wings - which was an amazing story.
I couldn't get past the first short story, The Leaf Storm, although I hear the others may be worth a read. Although the first chapter was great and reminded me so much of One Hundred Years of Solitude's ethereal qualities, the others dragged on and on.
For such a short story, Leaf Storm brings a lot of Marquez's style and techniques. I liked it a lot.
Quite possibly my absolute favorite collection of short stories. Just...gorgeous.
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.
داستان آخرش.."نابو" فوق العاده زیبا بود
Another Garcia Marquez excellent collections of stories.
Terrible story - no excitement and no plot. Waste of time.
A collection of early Marquez stories that includes his very first novel, *Leaf Storm*. I actually prefer later Marquez, when his style became clearer and crisper, but almost anything by this author is worth reading. *Leaf Storm* is a dense multi-layered work told from many differing viewpoints that concerns a mysterious doctor who arrives in Macondo one day and never leaves. Other stories in this volume include the fabulous 'Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship', perhaps the best story in this book, a...more
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amazing stories, another all time fave.
Love his novels, but just can't get into the short stories. Was looking forward to this one too,
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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short st...more
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“As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice.”
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“Everyone will have gone then except us, because we're tied to this soil by a roomful of trunks where the household goods and clothing of grandparents are kept, and the canopies that my parenrs' horses used when they came to Macondo, fleeing from the war. We've been sown into this soil by the memory of the remote dead whose bones can no longer be found twenty fathoms under the earth. The trunks have been in the room ever since the last days of the war; and they'll be there this afternoon when we come back from the burial, if that final wind hasn't passed, the one that will sweep away Macondo, its bedrooms full of lizards and its silent people devastated by memories.”
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