Title: Very disappointing
Product review: This is the first I've read of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and I was expecting great things. Generally magic realism in any form appeals to me. Now I am wondering how this writer managed to get his reputation if 'The Leaf Storm' is representative of the qualty on offer. The characters are psychologically implausible; unsympathetic and unconvincing, the plot is uninspired and uninteresting and I found the language at best, inconguous without resonance or beauty, at worst cliched. Any surreal qualities this book has feel like a contrived cover for its lack of substance. I really wouldn't bother.
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