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Memories of My Melancholy Whores

The Autumn of the Patriarch

Strange Pilgrims

News of a Kidnapping

In Evil Hour

The General in His Labyrinth

Leaf Storm

Living to Tell the Tale

I'm Not Here to Give a Speech

Until August

Love in the Time of Cholera

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Of Love and Other Demons

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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

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Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty. But on Fridays the postman comes and he hopes he'll be handed an envelope containing the army pension promised to him. Whilst he waits, his hopes are pinned on his prize bird and the upcoming cockfighting season. Until then, the bird - like the Colonel and his wife - must somehow be fed... 
 
No One Writes to the Colonel is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, 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. . . 
 
'Márquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else can do' Salman Rushie 
 
'Masterly. He dazzles us with powerful effect' New Statesman 
 
'One of this century's most evocative writers' Anne Tyler

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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