LEAF STORM AND OTHER STORIES [First UK edition]

Gabriel García Márquez [Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa]

ISBN 10: 0224007750 / ISBN 13: 9780224007757

Edité par Jonathan Cape, 37 Essex Street, Strand, London, 1972

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First impression of the first UK edition. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. ***Very good in forest-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Top edge of text-block stained green by the publisher. Boards clean and unmarked. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Corners of boards slightly bumped. Internally near fine. There is a very small period 'Foyles' book-shaped booksellers label to bottom corner of front pastedown.No foxing. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £1.95 net. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. 2.5cm closed tear to top inner edge of rear dustwrapper flap. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Dustwrapper bright. ***146 pages. 204 mm x 138 mm. ***Stories: 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. ***'Leaf Storm' is the first novella Gabriel García Márquez ever wrote. He began it when he was nineteen and it was published eight years later. It is set in Macondo, the town already familiar to readers of the fabulous One Hundred Years of Solitude, and covers the flux of its fortunes between 1903 and 1928. Three narrators - father, daughter and grandson - recall the town's long feud with an eccentric, grass-eating French doctor who once refused to tend some wounded men. When the doctor hangs himself, the townspeople will not let him be buried. It is left to the old colonel, whose life was once saved by the strange physician, to dissuade them from their bitter revenge. ***The six shorter stories in this volume, written in more recent years, are all marvelously original. One story is about a drowned man whose magnificent appearance awakens the inhabitants of a fishing village to the meanness of their own lives; others tell of the strange last voyage of a ghost ship and of the poor couple who find a fallen angel on the beach. ***Displaying both the earlier and later styles of Gabriel García Márquez, the maturing of his imagination, Leaf Storm is further testimony to the genius of a brilliant myth-maker, a master fabulist.' (Quotes taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition very hard to find in its original dustwrapper in collectable condition. An uncommon book now in first edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: LEAF STORM AND OTHER STORIES [First UK edition]
• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape, 37 Essex Street, Strand, London
• Date de parution: 1972
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0224007750
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780224007757
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First UK Edition
• Impression: First Impression
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • First Editions
  • Literature in Translation

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Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez,, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel Leaf Storm. 'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of the town, the banana company arrived, pursed by the leaf storm'Drenched by rain, the town has been decaying ever since the banana company left. Its people are sullen and bitter, so when the doctor - a foreigner who ended up the most hated man in town - dies, there is no one to mourn him. But also living in the town is the Colonel, who is bound to honour a promise made many years ago. The Colonel and his family must bury the doctor, despite the inclination of their fellow inhabitants that his corpse be forgotten and left to rot.'The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton'Márquez is a retailer of wonders' Sunday Times'An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny' Sunday TelegraphAs one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel García Márquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch, Bon Voyage Mr. President, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Collected Stories, The General in his Labyrinth, In Evil Hour, Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Living to Tell the Tale, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, News of a Kidnapping, No-one Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Strange Pilgrims.