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(BookJacketStatus:Jacketed)GabrielGarcíaMárquez’smostpoliticalnovelisthetragicstoryofGeneralSimónBolívar,themanwhotriedtouniteacontinent.Bolívar,knowninsixLatinAmericancountriesastheLiberator,isoneofthemostreveredheroesofthewesternhemisphere;inGarcíaMárquez’sbrilliantreimaginingheismagnificentlyflawedaswell.ThenovelfollowsBolívarashetakeshisfinaljourneyin1830downtheMagdalenaRivertowardthesea,revisitingthescenesofhisformergloryandlamentinghislostdreamofanallianceofAmericannations.Forcedfrompower,doggedbyassassins,andprematurelyagedandwastedbyafatalillness,theGeneralisstillaremarkablyvitalandmercurialman.Heseemstoremainalivebythesheerforceofwillthatledhimtosomanyvictoriesinthebattlefieldsandloveaffairsofhispast.Ashewandersinthelabyrinthofhisfailingpowers–andstill-powerfulmemories–hedefieshisimpendingdeathuntilthelast.TheGeneralinHisLabyrinthisanunforgettableportraitofavisionaryfromoneofthegreatestwritersofourtime.