Gabriel García Márquez

Pas de lettre pour le colonel est un roman de langue espagnole, écrit par le romancier, nouvelliste et journaliste colombien Gabriel García Márquez, prix Nobel de littérature en 1957. Lors de la première édition de 1961, seuls 800 des 2 000 premiers exemplaires publiés ont été vendus.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buenedia family and of Mocondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Mocondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie …

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where José Arcadio Buendía and his strong-willed …