Autumn of the Patriarch
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: October 1977
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780380513000
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.