The General in His Labyrinth

The General in His LabyrinthThe General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simn Bolvar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garca Mrquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'It was the fourth time he had travelled along the Magdalena, and he could not escape the impression that he was retracing the steps of his life' At the age of forty

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Leong Wong Seng

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the two narrators observe the events that change the town and their lives as modernity sets in and Mary Anne grows up

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it provides an ideal framework for understanding the turbulence of our times' The Nation