Title: No One Writes to the Colonel
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Release Date: 1961
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Book Description: Set in the decaying Colombian town of Macondo, the Colonel is scraping together the money for food and medicine. It is the Colonel's rooster that gives him hope for a better future as it has become a symbol of defiance in the face of despair.
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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 late worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador
and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and
New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories,
but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude
(1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved
significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most
notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism,
which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real
experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called
Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.
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