Autumn of the Patriarch
Publisher: Borgo Press
Published: June 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780809591374
Subjects: Literary; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.