The General in his Labyrinth

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [xvi], 285, [5]. Forest green linen cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; pale green endpapers. Map frontispiece. Chronology of Simón Bolívar. Jacket illustration by Sarah Perkins.

Price-clipped, else Fine.

Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. First published in the U.S. by Knopf the preceding year, and originally issued by Editorial La Oveja Negra, Bogotá, Colombia, and Mondadori España, Madrid, under the title El general en su laberinto on March 6th 1989. A portion of this translation previously published in The New Yorker.

A fictionalized account of the last days of Simón Bolívar, known as the Great Liberator across the South American continent. Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Breathtaking. A superb fictional recreation of Bolivar's last month." –Observer