Nobody writes to the colonel (new translation)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez “Nobody writes to the Colonel” Gabriel Garcia Marquez - the greatest writer of the twentieth century, Nobel Prize laureate, author of the world -famous novels “One hundred years of loneliness”, “Love during the plague” and “Autumn of the Patriarch”. Before publishing this story, Gabriel Garcia Marquez rewrote it at least ten times, but the result was worth it: in terms of capacity and strength, it has no equal in all Latin American prose. In one of the countries of Latin America, power once again replaced, the next metropolitan corrupt officials once again make states - and in a small provincial town a hero has long been past a civil war, an elderly retired colonel, echoing a semi -ministerial existence... A simple story about stamina and honor in the world of universal indifference and arbitrariness.