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No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories

By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Armando Durán, Roxanne Hernandez, Marcelo Tubert, Thom Rivera
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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", and "Big Mama's Funeral".

©1968 Gabriel García Márquez (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories
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I sometimes struggle with old Gabito - by the end of 100 Years of Solitude I was cheering for the ants. But this is a beautiful collection of little sparkling gems. These vignettes of life in Columbia under martial law, the poverty, the corruption, the desperation and the hope - are told with humanity and economy.

Little Sparkling Gems

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Some of the stories make sense, some start in a weird place, some end in a weird place, but overall it is an amazing exercise for imagination

Some great, some very random stories

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