NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL

One of this centurys most evocative writersNobel Laureate Gabriel Garca Mrquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful leftFridays 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 Colonels ageing heart.For fifteen years hes watched the mail launch come into harbour hoping hell 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. . .Mrquez writes in this lyrical magical language that no one else can do Salman RushieMasterly. He dazzles us with powerful effect New StatesmanOne of this centurys most evocative writers Anne Tyler