The Autumn of the Patriarch

This is an extraordinary novel by one of the world''s leading writers. A Latin American dictator''s body is discovered in his enormous, crumbling palace. Revolutionaries burst in and find his rotting corpse in an anarchic tangle of past and present-a present already lost and decayed, a past of almost unimaginable richness in which the palace was crowded with the dictator''s ministers, bodyguards and servants, who kept him precariously balanced in power, and also with a tribe of women and children. The atmosphere is dreamlike-even nightmarish-real, vibrant and sensually exact, and at the same time vague and almost unbelievable.

About the author

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since his death in April 2014.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel/ Rabassa Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Assisted by: Gregory Rabassa (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.03.2006
• EAN: 9780060882860
• ISBN: 978-0-06-088286-0
• No. of pages: 255
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Fantasy / Contemporary, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Fantasy / Romance, FICTION: Magical Realism, FICTION: Fantasy / Historical, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, LATIN AMERICAN: LITERATURE