The first novella by the celebrated Colombian prose writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1982), a classic of 20th-century world literature: Gabriel García Márquez’s «Fallen Leaves» is connected to his main novel «One Hundred Years of Solitude» by many threads. In this novella, Macondo appears for the first time—a backwater tropical town that flourishes when it comes under the control of a banana company and dies as a result of the company’s own activities, buried in fallen leaves…