num_pages: 119
description: As a blizzard of warehouses and amusement parlours and slums descends on the small town of Macondo, the inhabitants reel at the accompanying stench of rubbish that makes their home unrecognisable. When the banana company leaves town as fast as it arrived, all they are left with is a void of decay. Living in this devastated and soulless wasteland is one last honourable man, the Colonel, who is determined to fulfil a long-standing promise, no matter how unpalatable it may be. With the death of the detested Doctor, he must provide an honourable burial - and incur the wrath of the rest of Macondo, who would rather see the Doctor rot, forgotten and unattended.
language: English
title: Leaf Storm
titlecomplete: Leaf Storm
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Short Stories, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Latin American Literature, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Novels
ratings_count: 12530
places: Macondo
publisher: Penguin