{"product_id":"leaf-storm-and-other-stories-by-gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-2523b","title":"Leaf Storm: and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez","description":"\u003cp\u003eContains Leaf Storm, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo, Nabo  Editorial Reviews  Garcia Marquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform. Strange things happen in the land of Marquez. As with Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, every sentence breaks the silence of a vast emptiness, the famous new world of solitude that is the unconscious despair of his characters but the sign of Marquez's genius. -- The New York Times Book Review - Alfred Kazin  For Garcia Marquez the world contains mysteries that we can easily live with, but also miracles that we cannot understand...Leaf Storm, then, brings together both Garcia Marquez's early and late styles. The former deserves our respect, the latter requires our celebration. -- Newsweek - Peter S. Prescott  Religion is often seen as barren and stultifying, of stubborn and contstricting preoccupations, but there are minds which find relief in it and then soar to tremendous heights of imagination. Gabriel Garcia Marquez may not be pious in the traditional sense; however, there is in these stories, between 1957 and 1958 -- before his amazing novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude -- a pervase tone of imaginative religiosity, and mystical lyricism in even the simplest exchanges...To call these allegories would be to suggest that they are symbolic somehow and perhaps plainly stated. They are not; the texture is that of a prose poem, and the intention, a restatement of religious beliefs. But the feeling one comes away with is one of enhancement, which is a sense of having endured terror and magic. -- The Chicago Tribune - Paul Theroux\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41830935593034,"sku":"2523b","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2523b_217e63d4-12f2-433b-8b12-373fbcee6a28.jpg?v=1764460577","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/leaf-storm-and-other-stories-by-gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-2523b","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}