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The Autumn of the Patriarch

Door Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#349584-VG37
Titel	The Autumn of the Patriarch
Auteur	Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Jonathan Cape
Jaar van uitgave	1991
ISBN10	0224032380
ISBN13	9780224032384
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	First the vultures arrive. Then the revolutionaries burst into the crumbling presidential palace of a modern Latin American country to find the rotting corpse of the dictator whose shadow has loomed over the advancing corruption of their country for almost a century. There was a time when his power seemed to have no limit, when dauntless adulators proclaimed him corrector of earthquakes and other errors of God, when his messianistic appearances among the peasants inspired awe and love. But as his infamous regime tightened its grip of cruelty and terror, the dictator himself became afraid, withdrawing into the sanctuary of his crowded palace, where the ministers, concubines and tribes of children he surrounded himself with could not offset the loneliness of the autumn of his power - the aut... (Lees verder)umn of his pain. Gabriel Garcia Marquez weaves a narrative backwards and forwards through time, telling the story of the despot general - lover and son, puppet and symbol, man and monster - through the eyes of those who adored and served him, of those who feared and despised him.
Pagina's	235
Conditie	Goed — Bottom cover slightly waterstained. Fair-good copy.
Prijs	€ 8,00

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