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- 80 páginas
- 3 horas de lectura
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Friday's are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes - and that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the Colonel's ageing heart. For fifteen years he's watched the mail launch come into harbour, hoping he'll be handed an envelope containing the army pension promised to him all those years ago. Whilst he waits for the cheque, his hopes are pinned on his prize bird and the upcoming cockfighting season. But until then the bird - like the Colonel and his wife - must somehow be fed...
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No One Writes to the Colonel, Gabriel García Márquez
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1974
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Editorial
- Penguin books
- Publicado en
- 1974
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 80
- ISBN10
- 0140157492
- ISBN13
- 9780140157499
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Clásicos, Adaptada al cine, Novelas cortas, Literatura española, Realismo mágico, Literatura hispanoamericana, Resistencia, oposición, América del Sur, Ejército, Colombia, Oficiales, Literatura Colombiana, Macondo
- Primera publicación
- 1961
- Título original
- El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
- Calificación
- 3,7 de 5
- Descripción
- Friday's are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes - and that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the Colonel's ageing heart. For fifteen years he's watched the mail launch come into harbour, hoping he'll be handed an envelope containing the army pension promised to him all those years ago. Whilst he waits for the cheque, his hopes are pinned on his prize bird and the upcoming cockfighting season. But until then the bird - like the Colonel and his wife - must somehow be fed...