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 fulfill a promise made years earlier. " No One Writes to the Colonel" is a novella of life in a decaying tropical town in Colombia with an unforgettable central character. "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is a dark and profound story of three people joined together in a fatal act of violence.