The General in His Labyrinth

Gabriel García Márquez

Penguin Books, 1991 - Fiction - 285 pages

After his internationally acclaimed and bestselling Love in the Time of Cholera, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and author of the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude givesreat Simon Bolivar. Forced from power, the General embarks on a seven months' voyage down the Magdalena River, reflecting along the way on his life of campaigns and battles, love and loss.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 39
• Section 3: 69

About the author

Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. After studying law and journalism at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, he became a journalist. In 1965, he left journalism, to devote himself to writing. His works included Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, The Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Clandestine in Chile, and the memoir Living to Tell the Tale. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He died on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The General in His Labyrinth; A Penguin Book: Fiction; Great Books of the 20th Century Series; Penguin Books
• Author: Gabriel García Márquez
• Translated by: Edith Grossman
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Books, 1991
• ISBN: 0140148590, 9780140148596
• Length: 285 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary