Leaf Storm (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Plot: Magical Realism
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: Macondo, an imaginary town in Colombia
- Principal Characters: The colonel, Isabel, The child, The doctor, Meme
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism
- Subjects: Suicide, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Doctors, Small-town life, Funeral rites or ceremonies, South America or South Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans
- Locales: Colombia, Macondo, Colombia
The Novel
Leaf Storm is narrated through three alternating interior monologues: those of the colonel, his daughter Isabel, and her son. Through this structure, García Márquez chronicles the founding of the imaginary coastal town of Macondo in the late nineteenth century, its prosperity during the 1910’s, and its decadence after 1918. This is the story of the arrival and exit of the “leaf storm,” the hordes of outsiders and foreigners who descended on the Colombian coast as the region grew rich on the banana industry during a short period of wealth that ended as...
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