by Gabriel García Márquez · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433920713
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«El coronel no tiene quien le escriba» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Anagrama in paperback, 110 pages, in Spanish.
A retired colonel and his asthmatic wife live in a coastal town while waiting for fifteen years for the letter that will confirm his war pension. With barely any resources, all they have left is a fighting cock, inheritance from their dead son. The colonel must decide whether to sell it to eat or to keep with it his pride and hope.
Edition from the Compactos collection, number 67. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba was originally published in 1961; Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
For those who want to start with García Márquez or are looking for a short novel of Latin American literature.
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.
