No One Writes to the Colonel (International Writers) [Paperback]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 29, 1996 | Series: International Writers

Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes - and that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the General's ageing heart. For fifteen years he's watched the mail launch come into harbour, hoping he'll be handed an envelope containing the army pension promised to him all those years ago. Whilst he waits for the cheque, his hopes are pinned on his prize bird and the upcoming cockfighting season. But until then the bird - like the Colonel and his wife - must somehow be fed.

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About the Author

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available as a Penguin Paperback. He is the author of several novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (February 29, 1996)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 0140157492
• ISBN-13: 978-0140157499
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #516,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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