The Autumn of the Patriarch (Perennial Classics) - Softcover

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

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9780060932671: The Autumn of the Patriarch (Perennial Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0060932678 ISBN 13: 9780060932671

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, renowned as a master of magical realism, creates stories that grip the imagination. Set in exotic locals, peoples with unforgettable characters, and crafted with exquisite prose, his stories transport the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.

One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, the novel is overflowing with symbolic descriptions as it vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies at once the best and the worst of human nature.

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About the Author:

Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez was born in 1928 in the town of Aracatca, Colombia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel M�rquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

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