No One Writes to the Colonel

Synopsis

Nobel laureate gabriel garcía márquez, 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 left'fridays 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.