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El general en su laberinto

Pages
325
Published
1991
Language
English

Synopsis

This novel chronicles the final seven months of Simón Bolívar's life, the legendary liberator of South America. As his health fails and his dream of a united Gran Colombia crumbles, Bolívar confronts betrayal and the harsh realities of his legacy. It's a look at the man behind the myth, facing his own mortality and the labyrinth of his life's work.

About the author

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, born in Aracataca on Colombia's Caribbean coast. He earned his living as a journalist long before he earned it as a novelist, reporting from Paris in the 1950s and later working in Bogotá and New York for the agency Prensa Latina. He is the writer most closely identified with magical realism, in which the fantastic is narrated in the same matter-of-fact register as th...

Characters

Simón BolívarProtagonist
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