by Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Editorial Oveja Negra · tapa dura · ISBN 9789580600060
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«El general en su laberinto» is the historical novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Editorial Oveja Negra in hardback (285 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows Simón Bolívar on his final journey: the voyage down the Magdalena River from Santa Fe de Bogotá to Santa Marta, where he would die in 1830. Amid fever and exhaustion, the Liberator reviews his battles, his passions, and the betrayals he suffered, while confronting the failure of his project of continental unity.
First edition of 1989, published in Bogotá within the «Novela» series of Editorial Oveja Negra. ISBN: 9580600066.
Readers of historical fiction and Hispanic American literature interested in the figure of Simón Bolívar and the South American independence process.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
