The General in His Labyrinth

García Márquez, Gabriel [Gabriel Garcia Marquez]; Edith Grossman [Translated from the Spanish]

ISBN 10: 0394582586 / ISBN 13: 9780394582580

Published by Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, New York, 1990

About this Item

First printing of the stated first American edition. Faint bump to top edge of front cover, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a couple scratches to mid spine, mild bruise near bottom back corner, and shallow crimping to spine ends, else fine.

Seller Inventory # 021554

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The General in His Labyrinth
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394582586
• ISBN 13: 9780394582580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Douglas Brothers (Author's Photo); Carol Devine and Chip Kidd (Jacket Design); Thomas Woodruff
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions
  • Latin and Caribbean Literature
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and the dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is a moving exemplar of how much can be won—and lost—in a life.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended the University of Bogotá and went on to become a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He later served as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, he is the author of several novels and collections, including No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Strange Pilgrims, and Love and Other Demons.