The protagonist has a son named Emmanuel with the nun Leticia, but both are killed by trained dogs in the marketplace.
The title character of this novel has a mother who paints regular birds to pass them off as exotic and sell them. The protagonist has a son named Emmanuel with the nun Leticia, but both are killed by trained dogs in the marketplace. In one incident, the US ambassador gives the title character a wind machine after purchasing the Caribbean Sea and moving it to Arizona. The title character changes the clocks from three to eight in an effort to get over his obsession with the beauty queen Manuela Sanchez. In another episode from this novel, two thousand children used to rig the weekly lottery are drowned at sea. The title character of this work has his mother embalmed and sends her corpse around the country, feuding with the Catholic Church when they refuse to saint her. This novel is composed of six stream of consciousness paragraphs, which each begin with the death of the 107 to 232 year old "General." For 10 points, name this dictator novel by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.
The title character of this novel has a mother who paints regular birds to pass them off as exotic and sell them.
The {Autumn} of the {Patriarch} [or {El otoño del patriarca}]