Simon Bolivar. The liberator, the greatest of the heroes of the War of Independence, is a man of legend. A ruler who voluntarily gave up 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.…