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The General in His Labyrinth
  • Published: 9 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241968727
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99
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The General in His Labyrinth

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Paperback
9 July 2024
EBook
10 Apr 2014
Hardback
15 Sept 2004
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Márquez Day: A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first time

In his younger days, Simón Bolívar swept the Spanish back to Europe, liberating South America with his youthful vitality. Lonely, embittered and sickly, his power has dwindled and The Liberator enters the exile of retirement.

Bolívar's journey is hindered by his own reluctance to relinquish his power. Despite the assassination attempts, jeering and humiliation he encounters, his fear of fading into the shadows keeps him clinging to the man he used to be...

The General in His Labyrinth is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.
  • Published: 9 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241968727
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1927, Aracataca, Colombia; d. 2014, Mexico City, Mexico) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was one of the most influential and beloved novelists of the twentieth century; his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude has been read by millions worldwide, and is the foremost example of "magical realism." His other books include the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and a memoir, Living to Tell the Tale. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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Praise for The General in His Labyrinth

An imaginative writer of genius

Guardian

A fascinating tour de force and a moving tribute to an extraordinary man

Margaret Atwood

An imaginative writer of genius

Guardian