by Gabriel García Márquez · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401260056
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«El coronel no tiene quien le escriba» is the novel by Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (98 pages, in Spanish).
A retired colonel waits every Friday at the port for the official letter that recognizes his years of service and grants him the pension he has claimed. He and his wife survive on scarce resources, but the colonel preserves his dignity: the fighting cock he tends becomes a symbol of his resistance and last hope.
García Márquez wrote El coronel no tiene quien le escriba in Paris in the mid-1950s, after the closure of the newspaper he worked for. The Plaza & Janés edition is from 1994.
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.
