{"product_id":"no-one-writes-to-the-colonel","title":"No One Writes To The Colonel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera\u003c\/i\u003e, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel \u003ci\u003eNo One Writes to the Colonel\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFridays 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Márquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no one else can do'' Salman Rushie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Masterly. He dazzles us with powerful effect'' \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One of this century''s most evocative writers'' Anne Tyler\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319320027518,"sku":"NW9780241968734","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241968734.jpg?v=1778655491","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/no-one-writes-to-the-colonel","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}