Leaf Storm (Gabriel García Marquez)

Leaf Storm is probably the least popular of all García Marquez’s novels. A man hangs himself and nobody in the village wants him to be buried as punishment for something he didn’t do in the past. The story is narrated by three characters and is constructed with the memories and fears of each one of them. They are a Colonel, his only daughter and his only grandson. Three points of view of the same event, of the same people and of the same place. Despite the bad criticism, it is worth reading the origins of Macondo and watch it grow into the Macondo of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

                                                         

Living to tell the tale (Vivir para contarla)

Living to tell the tale is perhaps Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece.


In this book he tells his own life story in much the same magical way he tells all his other stories. In To live to tell it Gabo describes his family and his life until his early years as a writer; his childhood in his grandfather’s house and the ghosts that inhabited it, his schooldays, his ever growing family, his first writing job. Many of the characters and instances can be recognised in later stories, making it sometimes difficult to differentiate reality from fantasy.


Simply Brilliant!