Autumn of the Patriarch

A novel about the universal concepts of power and loneliness. Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez's "poetic prose" presents the long life of a lonely ruler of a kingdom of sorrow and longing, who, under the pressure of his unlimited power, becomes its prisoner. From mercy to deceit, from benevolence to violence, from fear of God to extreme cruelty... The Patriarch, aka the general of the universe, embodies the best and worst in human nature.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927–2014) is a Colombian writer, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize. He is considered the most prominent representative of "magical realism" in world literature. One of the most widely read prose writers in the world. "Marquez writes in his own lyrical, magical language, as no one else can write," - this is how the famous writer Salman Rushdie spoke about the writing of the Nobel laureate.