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31%OFFGabriel Garcia Marquez - NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL - 9780241968734 - 9780241968734
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NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL

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Description for NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL paperback. 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. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 66.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241968734
SKU
9780241968734
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99-1

About Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes ... Read more

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One of this century's most evocative writers
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