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No One Writes to the Colonel

No One Writes to the Colonel

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No One Writes to the Colonel

by M‡rquez, Gabriel Garc’a (tr J. S. Bernstein))

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London: Penguin, 1996. reprint. p/b. Fine, as new. . B (198 x 129). Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. 'The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left' 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 Colonel'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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Title
No One Writes to the Colonel
Author
M‡rquez, Gabriel Garc’a (tr J. S. Bernstein))
Format/Binding
P/b
Book Condition
New Fine, as new.
Quantity Available
1
Edition
reprint
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0241968739
ISBN 13
9780241968734
Publisher
Penguin
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1996
Pages
69
Keywords
fiction, Marquez, South America, magical realism, translation, Nobel
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2nd-hand books;
X weight
0.04 g
Size
B (198 x 129)

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