The Autumn of the Patriarch

Name: The Autumn of the Patriarch
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Experimental portrait of an aging dictator's final days told in fragments

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Colombian author and Nobel laureate whose One Hundred Years of Solitude defined magical realism and influenced generations of world writers. His sweeping masterwork created the mythical town of Macondo to stand for all of Latin America.

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