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Simon Bolivar. Osvoboditelʹ, velichaĭshiĭ iz geroev voĭny za nezavisimostʹ, chelovek-legenda. Vlastitelʹ, dobrovolʹno otkazavshiĭsi͡a ot vlasti. Sovsem nedavno on komandoval armii͡ami i poveleval narodami i vdrug - otstavka…Poslednie mesi͡at͡sy zhizni Bolivara - period, o kotorom istorikam pochti nichego ne izvestno. Odnako pod perom velichaĭshego mastera magicheskogo realizma legenda prevrashchaetsi͡a v istinu, a istina - v mif. Fakty - lishʹ obramlenie dli͡a istinnogo si͡uzheta knigi. A vpolne realʹnoe 'poslednee puteshestvie' prestarelogo Bolivara po reke stanovitsi͡a stranstviem iz mira zhivykh v mir poslesmertnyĭ - stranstviem po doroge vospominaniĭ, gde generalu predstoit v posledniĭ raz svesti schety so vsemi, kogo on li͡ubil ili nenavidel v ėtoĭ zhizni…

Simon Bolivar. The liberator, the greatest of the heroes of the War of Independence, is a man of legend. A ruler who voluntarily renounced power. Most recently, he commanded armies and commanded nations, and suddenly he retired.…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 turns into truth, and truth into myth. The facts are just a frame for the true plot of the book. And the very real "last journey" of the elderly Bolivar along the river becomes a journey from the world of the living to the world of the afterlife – a journey along the road of memories, where the general will have to settle accounts with everyone he loved or hated in this life for the last time.…