The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez

Section: translated novels

Number of pages: 336 pages

Publisher: Dar Al-Tanweer for printing and publishing

Marquez summed up in the life of this patriarch (the Penguin) the lives of fourteen dictators...they are his predecessors and his successors the dictators...as their image appears in the mirror repeating his image...and so is life on the Caribbean coast, where presidents take turns so names and images differ, but no Governance varies... A terrifying narrative in which Gabriel García Márquez transcends the borders of Latin America, and an omnipresent dictator declares war on all his rivals, from children to the papal see in Rome