"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" (Spanish: Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes) and subtitled "A Tale for Children" is a short story by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. The tale was written in 1968[1] and published in the May–June 1968 (VIII, 48) issue of the journal Casa de las Américas.[2] The work was published in English in the New American Review 13 in 1971.[3] It appeared in the 1972 book Leaf Storm and Other Stories. [4] The[5] short story involves the eponymous character who appears in a family's backyard on a stormy night. What follows are the reactions of the family, a town, and outside visitors.[6] This story falls within the genre of magic realism.
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