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Gabriel García Márquez's first book—from 1955—contains the stylistic seed and the ideas that would nourish his vast production. La hojarasca is the unfortunate account of a silent collective revenge that takes place in Macondo, at the time when the town receives the disordered torrent that follows the exploitation of the banana, and its disastrous wake after the bloody rebellion of the workers. A prefiguration imbued with a supernatural aura and at the same time unquestionably realistic, this story in three voices is the fundamental stone of the splendid kingdom of the universal Colombian.