No One Writes to the Colonel: And Other Stories

Product Description


[Library Edition Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl case.]

[Read by Armando Duran and Roxanne Hernandez]

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of
One Hundred Years of Solitude, a series of short stories told in spare, unpretentious...picturesque prose (
Library Journal)

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.


Stories include:
*No One Writes to the Colonel
*Tuesday Siesta
*One of These Days
*There Are No Thieves in This Town
*Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon
*Montiel's Widow
*One Day after Saturday
*Artificial Roses
*Big Mama's Funeral.




Review


''A rare combination of grace and vibrancy. Every scene, every gesture, signs life and denies death . . . He is an absolute master.'' --
New York Times

''[These stories] are told in spare, unpretentious, but picturesque prose, compassionate of human frailty but also rich in wit and irony. The characters are all too human, alternately humorous and tragic.'' --
Library Journal

''Garcia Marquez' style is direct and matter-of-fact; in attitude, he accepts these characters with the same inevitability as they accept the heat and the rain.'' --
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

''García Márquez creates an absolute jewel of a novella in
No One Writes to the Colonel, a story that evokes the entire range of human emotions from misplaced hope to blackest cynicism.'' --Oprah.com


About the Author


GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, born in Colombia in 1928, is an author, journalist, and pioneer of the Latin American Boom. While most well known for the classic
One Hundred Years of Solitude, his many books include
The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and more. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.