Collected Novellas (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Both of the novellas I read in this collection took me back to the magical, dusty world of Macondo, to my delight. However, Leaf Storm was a very difficult read, and sometimes frustrating. Since it switched irregularly between the voices of three different narrators, it was often difficult to tell who was narrating until as late as a few paragraphs into any given section. But, it's interesting to have a different perspective on life in Macondo. No One Writes to the Colonel was much more engaging. Typical of Marquez's mythical world of solitude, The main characters wait endlessly for a letter that will never come, and occupy themselves with hopeless undertakings, somehow seeming to live in a magical sort of realism.