Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Broschiertes Buch

The General in His Labyrinth

Beschreibung

At the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar, who drove the Spanish from his lands and became the Liberator of South America, takes himself into exile. He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River, revisiting the cities along its shores, reliving the triumphs, passions and betrayals of his youth.

Autor

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Originaltitel: El general en su laberinto
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 812205
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780241968727
• ISBN-10: 0241968720
• Artikelnr.: 39693827

Rezensionen

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