title: Collected Novellas
author:  Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
description: All three of these psychologically provocative novellas by 1982 Nobel Laureate Garcia Marquez involve the turmoil of violent death in small, lethargic Colombian villages. "Leaf Storm," like Antigone, poses a conflict over burial. The colonel is set on honoring the local doctor with a burial despite the wishes of the townspeople, who hate him because he refused to treat the wounded after an outburst of political violence. In "No One Writes to the Colonel," another colonel waits as if for Godot for a pension check from the government that never comes. Is his faith in the future all that matters--or is it irresponsible? "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" concerns the murder of a man for allegedly making love to a woman who on her wedding night to another is unable to prove her virginity. The tension stems from why no one, including the local priest, tries to stop the murder when everyone knows just how it will happen. Highly recommended.<br /><i>- Jack Shreve, Allegany Community Coll., Cumberland, Md.</i><br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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   _Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa_
  
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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at
  the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian
  newspaper _El Espectador_ and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris,
  Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and
  collections of stories, including _Eyes of a Blue Dog_ (1947), _Leaf Storm_
  (1955), _No One Writes to the Colonel_ (1958), _In Evil Hour_ (1962), _Big
  Mama’s Funeral_ (1962), _One Hundred Years of Solitude_ (1967), _Innocent
  Eréndira and Other Stories_ (1972), _The Autumn of the Patriarch_ (1975),
  _Chronicle of a Death Foretold_ (1981), _Love in the Time of Cholera_ (1985),
  _The General in His Labyrinth_ (1989), _Strange Pilgrims_ (1992), _Of Lo