Leaf Storm Av Gabriel Garcia Marquez

<p>Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez,, author of the <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> and <i>Love in the Time of Cholera</i>, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel<i> Leaf Storm</i>. <br><br><b>''Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of the town, the banana company arrived, pursed by the leaf storm''</b><br><br>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.<br><br>''The most important writer of fiction in any language'' Bill Clinton<br><br>''Márquez is a retailer of wonders'' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>''An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny'' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></p>