Leaf Storm

　　Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the center of the town, the banana company arrived, pursued by the leaf storm'

　　A blizzard of slums descends on Macondo; the inhabitants reel at the accompanying stench. When the banana company leaves town as fast as it arrived, they are left with a void of decay.

　　Living in this soulless wasteland is one last honourable man, who is determined to fulfil a longstanding promise, however unpalatable.

　　Leaf Storm is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books in ebook for the first time.

作者簡介

　　Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014 ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available as a Penguin Paperback from August 2007. He is the author of several novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.