num_pages: 261
description: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, renowned as a master of magical realism, creates stories that grip the imagination. Set in exotic locals, peoples with unforgettable characters, and crafted with exquisite prose, his stories transport the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real. One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, the novel is overflowing with symbolic descriptions as it vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies at once the best and the worst of human nature.
language: English
title: The Autumn of the Patriarch
titlecomplete: The Autumn of the Patriarch (Perennial Classics)
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Novels, Magical Realism, Latin American, Nobel Prize, Classics, Fiction, Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature
ratings_count: 22785
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Gregory Rabassa, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Translation, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: HarperPerennial