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A book of short stories which is far, far more satisfying than ploughing your way through the tedium that is One Hundred Years of Solitude. What Garcia Marquez has done here is depict the psyche of South America in fine detail through vignettes of characters such as the eponymous Colonel.
Each tale is told with a delicacy that brings the characters and their deeply felt sufferings alive. The humid air permeates each scene, and the relationships between the characters are stretched just as tautly ...more
Each tale is told with a delicacy that brings the characters and their deeply felt sufferings alive. The humid air permeates each scene, and the relationships between the characters are stretched just as tautly ...more
This book is gorgeously written snapshots of places and people enduring life within the constraints of postcolonial life. The people in this book face corruption on personal and systemic levels to various degrees.
This work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez I liked. It was short and without all this magical stuff.
Mar 03, 2007
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