The Autumn of the Patriarch
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1977-10
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780380017744
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.