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The General in His Labyrinth is a fictionalized account of the last days of the Gran Colombian liberator and leader, Simon Bolivar. Summary of the Book The General in His Labyrinth traces Simon Bolivar’s last journey from Bogota to the Caribbean coastline of Colombia, in his endeavour to leave South America for his exile in Europe. Unlike the usual portrayal of Bolivar as a hero, Garcia depicts a prematurely aged protagonist, who is mentally exhausted and physically ill. The book delves into Bolivar’s life and times through the account of his own memories. About Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian writer of novels, short-stories, screenplays and journalistic columns. He is best remembered for: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera. Marquez won much acclaim for his contribution to Colombian literature, including the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works were often based around a fictional village called Macondo and explore the themes of solitude and magic realism.