The Autumn of the Patriarch

It asks to be read more than twice, and the rewards are dazzling * Observer *Delights with its quirky humanity and black humour and impresses by its total originality * Vogue *Captures perfectly the moral squalor and political paralysis that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long-term dictator * Guardian *Delights with its quirky humanity and black humour and impresses by its total originality * Vogue *Captures perfectly the moral squalor and political paralysis that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long-term dictator * Guardian *

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama’s Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.

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