The Autumn of the Patriarch (P.S.)
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published: March 14, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780060882860
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.