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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
El otono del patriarca
El otono del patriarca
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Paperback
- Chapter Book
English Translation
English Translation
The Autumn of the Patriarch
One of Gabriel García Márquez's most ambitious novels, The Autumn of the Patriarch tells the story of a Caribbean tyrant's long agony and death. Written in an innovative, dreamlike style, the book cycles through a single anecdote that is always the same yet always different, piling up dazzling images and descriptions. The dictator embodies both the best and worst of human nature—charity and deceit, benevolence and violence, piety and cruelty—as García Márquez, master of magical realism, traps him within the prison of his own absolute power, creating a world both fantastical and painfully real.
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Book Details
Book Details
Vendor: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Binding: Paperback
Type: Chapter Book
Copyright: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Genre: Historical Fiction
Fiction or Non Fiction: Fiction
Subject: Latin American History and Culture
Type of Spanish Book: Authentic
Pages: 304
Author/Illustrator Details
Author/Illustrator Details
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Author Origin: Colombia
Illustrator: None
IIlustrator Origin: None
Weight/Dimensions
Weight/Dimensions
Dimensions: 5.2 x 7.97 x .61 (Inches)
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