The President
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Translation of: El seƱor presidente.
In the cathedral porch -- Death of the mosquito -- Flight of the zany -- Angel face -- That swine! -- General's head -- Archiepiscopal absolution -- Puppet-master of the porch -- Glass eye -- Princes of the Army -- Abduction -- Camila -- Arrests -- Let the whole world sing! -- Uncles and aunts -- In the casa Nueva -- Love's stratagems -- Knocking -- Accounts and chocolate -- Wolves of the same pack -- Vicious circle -- Living tomb -- President's mail-bag -- Whore-house -- Death's halting-place -- Whirlwind -- Road to exile -- Conversation in the darkness -- Council of war -- Marriage in extremis -- Sentinels made of ice -- President -- Dotting the I's -- Light for the blind -- Song of songs -- Revolution -- Tohil's dance -- Journey -- Port -- Blind man's buff -- Nothing to report.
An English translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Spanish novel, first published in 1963, about a ruthless Latin American dictator who schemes to dispose of his political adversary.
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PUBLISHED
Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, [1997].
Year Published: 1997
Description: 286 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780881339512
0881339512
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Partridge, Frances, 1900-2004.
SUBJECTS
Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1948-1980 -- Fiction.
Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980- -- Fiction.
Fiction.