"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" (Spanish: Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes) is a fictional short story by author Gabriel García Márquez written in 1968. It falls within the genre of magic realism, and is one of the short stories included in the book Leaf Storm.
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