Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Leaf Storm

Author: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa

Narrator: Kenny Ramos, Jack de Golia, Marisol Ramirez

Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/31/2021

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

Leaf Storm is the first book García Márquez wrote. Already we see the colorful historical background that forms the basis for his later work. It covers the history of Macondo from 1903 to 1928, ending the year the author was born.A man dies and three people reflect on the story of Macondo’s boom and decline as shown in the family fortunes over three generations. As they attend the wake, the members of the family recall the tragedy that involves them all. Grim, ironic, powerful, Leaf Storm creates a mysterious and ominous atmosphere that lingers on in the listener’s mind.

About Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

About Jack de Golia

Jack de Golia has narrated over seventy-five audiobooks in a wide range of genres. His narrations include the Project series by Alex Lukeman and Remembering the Battle of the Crater by Kevin Levin.

About Marisol Ramirez

Marisol Ramirez is an audio narrator and actress who has appeared on numerous television shows, including ER, The Mentalist, Without a Trace, and Dallas. Among her film credits are Right at Your Door and Just Cause.

About Gregory Rabassa

Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016) was an American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. His translations include works by Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Franco. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on July 02, 2019

This is a novella of 100 pages and six short stories by the master. The novella of the title is a strange story, essentially a fantasy. A family in a small town in Colombia has taken in two people, a young Indian woman and a man who supposedly used to be a doctor. They don’t even learn his name for......more

Goodreads review by Kerilynn on January 06, 2008

i will read anything marquez writes......grocery list, doodles, short story, novel...........more

Goodreads review by Heidi on November 23, 2012

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 journ......more

Goodreads review by Vaidya on February 10, 2016

One novella and the rest of them pretty short stories. They were apparently written well before One Hundred Years, but the foundation is there to be seen. Macondo is introduced with the train and the banana company. There is Col. Aureliano Buendia, although as someone who's written a recommendation......more

Goodreads review by Irena on April 22, 2019

This short story collection contains some of the best stories by Marquez: The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (a nod to the Hungarian sentence. Halalcsillag means death star). Other stories like Monologue of Isabel Watching......more


Quotes

“The feeling one comes away with is that of enchantment, which is a sense of having endured terror and magic.” Chicago Tribune