Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, known for "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera," tells a powerful story of poverty and unyielding hope in his poignant novel "No One Writes to the Colonel." "The Colonel took the lid off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left." Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife struggle with poverty and a wearying routine, scraping by with the crumbs of their savings for the food and medicine that keep them alive. But on Fridays, the postman arrives - and this brings a fleeting wave of hope surging through the Colonel's aging heart. For fifteen years, he has watched the mail's arrival, hoping for an envelope containing the military pension promised to him so many years ago. As he waits for the check, his hopes are pinned on his prize rooster and the upcoming cockfighting season. But until then, the rooster - like the Colonel and his wife - must somehow be fed...

"Márquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else can" - Salman Rushdie

"Masterful. Impresses us with powerful impact" - New Statesman

"One of the most vivid writers of this century" - Anne Tyler

Pages: 80, Dimensions: 12.6x12.6cm