Garcia Marquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders he can perform. Strange things happen in the land of Marquez. As with Emerson 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 Marquez s genius. Contains Leaf Storm The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Blacaman the Good Vendor of Miracles The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo Nabo.