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Book 2016
The Autumn of the Patriarch
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- Publisher
- Penguin
- Published
- 2016
- Fiction
- Latin American fiction
- Fiction in Spanish
- Dictators in fiction
- Translations into English
- Spanish fiction
- Corruption
- Dictators
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.
