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The Autumn of the Patriarch

by Gabriel García Márquez

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Originally El otoño del patriarca · Spanish

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 1975 Plaza & Janés 244 pages
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Literature
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DDC 863 LCC PQ-8180.17000000.A73 O8 2006 Colombian fictionCorruptionDictadoresDictatorsDictators in fictionEnglish fictionEnglish textsFicción
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ISBN 0140157530 English
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