General in his Labyrinth
Wraps moderately edge-worn, corner tips softened and creased, spine has a faint reading-crease, prev. retailler's sticker UR front wrap corner. Pages clean. Binding tight.

Author: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Here is a novel from one of Latin America's most widely known and loved authors. Marquez fills his stories with the superstitions, religious beliefs and legends that permeate the lives of his people. His novels and short stories are full of strange twists and a lurking sense of malevolence and danger, reflective of the instability of life in Colombia, his home, and other Latin American states.
Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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Simon Bolivar, one of the Western Hemisphere's supreme heroes, embarks on a seven-month voyage down the wide Magdalena River. Forced from power, made old and ill by the pressures of war, passion, victory, and betrayal, the General reexamines his life, confronting the phantoms of his past, reliving the campaigns that brought him renown, and remembering the women he loved for a night or a lifetime. On a journey that is at once a fantasy of triumphal progress and a nightmare of loss and disillusion, we come to know the Liberator - the dazzling orchestrator of political and military intrigue - as well as the lover, the libertine, the fighter capable of heroism, mercy and ruthlessness.
Here is the Bolivar of flexh and blood, worthy of adoration and anger, seen among his enemies and his partisans, rescued from myth and made real - yet seen, at the same time, in the shining romantic aura of the legend that formed around him. - from the wraps.
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