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INNOCENT ERENDIRA
and other stories
" It is the genius of the mature Garcia Marquez that fatalism
and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that
there is laughter even in death. Not being a genius, I don 't
know how he does it, but I am grateful. He is, as usual, superbly
abetted by his translator, Gregory Rabassa:'
-John Leonard ,
The New York Times
"Since the death of Neruda he is arguably the best of the Latin
Americans:' - Martin Kaplan ,
The New Republic
paperback CN701 ,
$3.50
LEAF STORM
and other stories
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez may not be pious in the traditional
sense ; however, there is in his stories, written between 1957
and 1968-before his amazing novel , One Hundred Years of
Solitude-a pervasive tone of imaginative religiosity, a mys–
tical lyricism in even the simplest exchange ... the feeling one
comes away with is that of enchantment, which is a sense of
having endured terror and magic:'
- Paul Theroux,
Chicago Tribune
paperback CN699,
$3.50
NOONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL
and other stories
"Strange things happen in the land of Marquez. As with Emer–
son , Poe, Hawthorne, every sentence breaks the silence of
a vast emptiness, the famous New World 'solitude' that is the
unconscious despair of his characters but the sign of Mar–
quez's genius:'
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The New York Times
"One story is linked to another by an event, or a person or
merely a mood, and no one story can be fully understood
without reading them aiL ...As each linkage is revealed, the
effect is that of tumblers falling in place in a combination
lock:' -
The Nation
paperback CN700,
$3.50
Coming in hardcover in October, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new novel,
IN EVIL HOUR , $8.95.
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