by Gabriel García Márquez · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330256889
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«Leaf Storm» is the short novel by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa, published by Picador in paperback (146 pages, in English).
Set in Macondo during the banana exploitation and the workers' rebellion, «Leaf Storm» is articulated through three voices around a silent collective revenge. The novel combines the supernatural with social realism and anticipates the narrative universe that García Márquez would later develop.
The original work, «La hojarasca», dates from 1955; this edition, translated by Gregory Rabassa, is from 1979.
For those who have read «Cien años de soledad» and want to return to the origin of Macondo in García Márquez's narrative.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
