Description
Title: The Autumn of the Patriarch
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 9780060882860
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Rep Tra
Number of Pages: 255
Condition Note: New from the publisher
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One of Gabriel García Márquez’s most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power.
From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic s, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.
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