Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Leaf Storm

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@00000400@Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez,, author of the @00000373@One Hundred Years of Solitude@00000155@ and @00000373@Love in the Time of Cholera@00000155@, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel@00000373@ Leaf Storm@00000155@. @00000163@@00000400@@00000327@'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of the town, the banana company arrived, pursed by the leaf storm'@00000133@@00000163@@00000400@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.@00000163@@00000400@'The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton@00000163@@00000400@'Marquez is a retailer of wonders' @00000373@Sunday Times@00000155@@00000163@@00000400@'An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny' @00000373@Sunday Telegraph@00000155@@00000163@