Leaf storm

"For García Márquez the world contains mysteries that we need and can easily live with, but also miracles that we cannot understand, that speak for forces unknown to men." -Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek "The texture is that of the prose poem, and the intention a restatement of religious belief. But the feeling one comes away with is that of enchantment, which is a sense of having endured terror and magic." -Paul Theroux, Chicago Tribune "Strange things happen in the land of García Márquez. As with Emerson, Poe, [and] 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 García Márquez's genius." -Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review