Leaf Storm · 1955
The author's first novel and the first appearance of the invented town of Macondo. Against the will of the town, a retired colonel resolves to bury a doctor everyone despised, and the story is told through the voices of three generations of one family.
No One Writes to the Colonel · 1961
An impoverished retired colonel goes to the harbour every Friday to wait for the pension he was promised after a long-ago war, though the letter has not come for years. A short novel about poverty, stubborn dignity and a hope that refuses to give up.
In Evil Hour · 1962
In a small Colombian town, anonymous notices exposing private secrets begin appearing on doors overnight, and the fragile calm gives way to fear and mutual suspicion.
