by Gabriel García Márquez · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401427565
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«El coronel no tiene quien le escriba» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (100 pages, in Spanish).
A retired colonel and his asthmatic wife have been waiting for fifteen years for the government letter confirming his military pension. Despite poverty, they keep their dignity; the colonel ends up pinning his last hopes on a fighting cock inherited from his son.
The work originally appeared in 1961; this is the ninth edition, published in 1999.
A short novel often recommended as a first approach to García Márquez's narrative.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
