As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through thedusty corridors of the presidential palace in search of theirtyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail andwithered man laying dead on the floor can be the self-styledGeneral of the Universe. Their egocentric, maniacally violentleader, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowningyoung children at sea, can surely not die the humiliating death ofa mere mortal? Tracing the demands of a man whose egocentricexcesses mask the loneliness of isolation and whose lies havebecome so ingrained that they are indistinguishable from truth,Marquez has created a fantastical portrait of despotism that ringswith an air of reality.
【作者简介】
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia.His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is hisfirst new novel to be published in a decade and is available as aPenguin Paperback from August 2007. He is the author of severalnovels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories,including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967);The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold(1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded theNobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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