raethereviewer 's review for:

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez

4.75

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I read this for my thesis since I’m focusing on Caribbean lit. When I first started this, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to finish it. Individual sentences take up multiple pages and there are no paragraph breaks. Thankfully, there’s an audiobook. I listened to the audiobook while annotating my physical copy and I love that the narrator distinguishes between the descriptions and dialogue since that isn’t always clear in the formatting of the novel. That being said, I do think this is masterfully done. I hated the main character yet I was so intrigued that I couldn’t put it down.