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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez (1972)
Marquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century and received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this short story, an old man with wings disturbs a quiet town after crashing into a family’s yard.

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