The President
Contributors: Frances Partridge (Translator)
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780881339512
Subjects: Literary; Asturias, Miguel Angel - Prose & Criticism; Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Central America; Fiction - Contemporary; Latin America; Political fiction; Social life and customs; Totalitarianism; Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary
First sentence: "BOOM, bloom, alum-bright, Lucifer of alunite!" The sound of the church bells summoning people to prayer lingered on, like a humming in the ears, an uneasy transition from brightness to gloom, from gloom to brightness.
Description: An English translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Spanish novel, first published in 1963, about a ruthless Latin American dictator who schemes to dispose of his political adversary.