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No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel García Márquez

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Book name: No One Writes to the Colonel (2024)
Category: Colombia
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Pages: 100 pages
Language: Spanish; Castilian
Publication data: Jan. 1, 1961, midnight
This novel centers around an impoverished, retired colonel who has been waiting for many years for the pension he was promised. Despite his increasing desperation and the urging of his wife, the colonel remains hopeful and proud, refusing to sell his only valuable possession, a rooster that he plans to enter in a cockfight. The story explores themes of poverty, pride, and the struggle for dignity amid difficult circumstances. The 1824th greatest book of all time

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New… Read more