The autumn of the patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez (Author), Gregory Rabassa (Translator)
As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through the corridors of the presidential palace in search of their tyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man laying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe. Their egocentric, maniacally violent leader, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowning young children at sea, can surely not die the humiliating death of a mere mortal?
Novels
229 pages ; 20 cm
9780241968635, 0241968631
878792383
Originally published as El otoño del patriarca, 1975. This translation originally published: [New York] : Harper & Row, 1976
Translated from the Spanish into English