Leaf Storm and Other Stories

MARQUEZ, Gabriel Garcia

Verlag: Harper & Row, New York, 1972

Beschreibung

First American Edition. In dustjacket. Turquoise cloth binding with stamped, bird design to front cover and stamped, green and gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful leaf endpapers. Translated from Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. "Leaf Stormis the common translation forGabriel García Márquez'snovellaLa Hojarasca. First published in 1955,it took seven years to find a publisher. Widely celebrated as the first appearance ofMacondo, the fictitious village later made famous inOne Hundred Years of Solitude,Leaf Stormis a testing ground for many of the themes and characters later immortalized in said book. It is also the title of a short story collection by García Márquez. The other stories compiled in the English translation are "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", "The Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo", and "Nabo". Several of these short stories appeared elsewhere before being put into this compilation. "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" first appeared inPlayboymagazine in 1971. "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" first appeared in New American Review and "Blacaman the Good, Vendor of Miracles" was first published in Esquire Magazine. The narrative ofLeaf Stormshifts between the perspectives of three generations of one family as the three characters (father, daughter and grandson respectively) find themselves in a spiritual limbo after the death of a man passionately hated by the entire village yet inextricably linked to the patriarch of the family." Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Binding tight. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33556

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Leaf Storm and Other Stories

Verlag: Harper & Row, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1972

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included

Auflage: 1st Edition.