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A retired colonel lives in poverty for nineteen years while he waits for the letter authorizing his war pension. -- Un coronel jubilado lleva diecinueve años viviendo en pobreza mientras espera la letra que autorice su pensión de guerra.

Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real. Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must...