by Gabriel García Márquez · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447333790
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«El coronel no tiene quien le escriba» is the novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardcover (92 pages, in Spanish).
A retired colonel and his asthmatic wife have been waiting for fifteen years for a war pension that never arrives. Every Friday the colonel goes to the port hoping for an official letter acknowledging his services, while scraping by with the only valuable possession he has left: the fighting cock he inherited from his son.
The work was originally published in 1961. This edition is part of the Biblioteca García Márquez collection.
For readers of Latin American fiction and classics of Spanish-language 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.
