Leaf Storm Marquez 2014 — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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