A review by krpollard
Collected Novellas by Gabriel García Márquez

4.0

This is the first collection of stories that I've read my Márquez. My first introduction to him was through a magic realism course in college in which I read One Hundred Years of Solitude. That work is still my favorite, but I liked how Márquez began populating his fictional town with characters in "Leaf Storm", which was my favorite of the three stories. I just love the way Márquez brings his characters to life with all their imperfections and oddities, and I often wonder how he chose a specific combination of words or how he thought to use such a mundane description or fact to bring the character to life.