Gabriel Garcia Marquez, renowned as a master of magical realism, creates stories that grip the imagination. Set in exotic locals, peoples with unforgettable characters, and crafted with exquisite prose, his stories transport the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real. </P>

One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, the novel is overflowing with symbolic descriptions as it vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies at once the best and the worst of human nature.</P>

加西亞•馬爾剋斯（Gabriel García Márquez）

1927年齣生於哥倫比亞馬格達萊納海濱小鎮阿拉卡塔卡。童年與外祖父母一起生活。1936年隨父母遷居蘇剋雷。1947年考入波哥大國立大學。1948年因內戰輟學，進入報界。五十年代開始齣版文學作品。六十年代初移居墨西哥。1967年齣版《百年孤獨》。1975年《族長的鞦天》問世。1982年獲諾貝爾文學奬。2014年4月17日於墨西哥病逝。