The Autumn of the Patriarch

Name: The Autumn of the Patriarch
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
ISBN: 0140157530

by Gabriel García Márquez

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Originally published as «El otoño del patriarca» (Spanish), Plaza & Janés

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

First published 1975244 pages

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Category: Literature
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 5
Editions known: 78

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 863863.64
Library of Congress (LCC): PQ8180.17000000.A73 O8 2006PQ8180.17000000.A73 O813 1999PQ8180.17000000.A73 O813 2001PQ8180.17000000.A73 Au

Subjects

Colombian fictionCorruptionDictadoresDictatorsDictators in fictionEnglish fictionEnglish textsFicciónFictionFiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction in SpanishFiction subjects

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ISBN 0140157530English

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First published1975

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