No One Writes To The Colonel - And Other Stories

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.

About the author

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since his death in April 2014.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel/ Bernstein Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garica Marquez
• Assisted by: J. S. Bernstein (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2005
• EAN: 9780060751579
• ISBN: 978-0-06-075157-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Perennial Classics; Perennial Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, DRAMA: American / General, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), RELIGION: Ancient, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, FICTION: Classics, RELIGION: THEOLOGY, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, RELIGION: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Russian & Former Soviet Union