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Collected Novellas
Contributor(s): Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (Author)

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ISBN: 006093266X     ISBN-13: 9780060932664
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2008
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Annotation: Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real.

" Leaf Storm," Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must fulfill a promise made years earlier.

" No One Writes to the Colonel" is a novella of life in a decaying tropical town in Colombia with an unforgettable central character.

"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is a dark and profound story of three people joined together in a fatal act of violence.

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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99034271
Series: Perennial Classics
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.37" W x 8.11" L (0.54 lbs) 288 pages
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Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real.

Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must fulfill a promise made years earlier.

No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella of life in a decaying tropical town in Colombia with an unforgettable central character.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a dark and profound story of three people joined together in a fatal act of violence.


Contributor Bio(s): Garcia Marquez, Gabriel: -

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.


 
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