The Autumn Of The Patriarch

‘Majestic...mystic, surrealistic—a stunning portrait of a monstrous tyrant.’
—The New York Times

‘Set in an unspecified Caribbean country, dominated by a dictator who has just died after a reign of over 200 years...the book is essentially concerned with deception and illusion...like its predecessor [One Hundred Years of Solitude] it asks to be read more than twice, and the rewards are dazzling.'
—Alastair Reid in the Observer

‘Mesmeric, ornate, horrifying …a magnificat to harsh Latin American reality.’
—Jill Neville in the Sunday Times

‘Marquez has written a baroque legend...[The Autumn of the Patriarch] delights with its quirky humanity and black humour and impresses by its grandeur, by the solemn reverberations of its imagery and above all by its total originality.’
—Lucy Hughes-Hallett in Vogue

‘Marquez is the master weaver of the real and the conjectured. His descriptive power astounds.’
—V.S. Pritchett in the New Statesman