The General in His Labyrinth

Simon Bolivar. The Liberator, the greatest of the heroes of the war for independence, a legendary man. A ruler who voluntarily renounced power. Just recently, he commanded armies and ruled over nations, and suddenly - resignation… The last months of Bolivar's life are a period about which historians know almost nothing. However, under the pen of the greatest master of magical realism, legend transforms into truth, and truth into myth. Facts are merely the framing for the true plot of the book. And the quite real "last journey" of the elderly Bolivar down the river becomes a passage from the world of the living to the afterlife - a journey along the road of memories, where the general must finally settle accounts with all those he loved or hated in this life…