{"product_id":"ninguem-escreve-ao-coronel","title":"Nobody writes to the colonel","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOne of García Márquez's most famous books and one of the most captivating characters in 20th-century Spanish-American literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e While waiting for his pension payment in the mail, a retired colonel struggles to survive in a hostile small town. At his side are only his asthmatic wife and a fighting rooster that belonged to his late son. The mail always arrives once a week, on Fridays, but his pension doesn't, lost in bureaucratic red tape. \"Nobody writes to the colonel,\" the mailman says dismissively. Despite its simple plot, \u003cem\u003e\"Nobody Writes to the Colonel\"\u003c\/em\u003e is filled with irony and subtle commentary on his country's history and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eGarcía Márquez's second work, \u003cem\u003e\"Nobody Writes to the Colonel,\"\u003c\/em\u003e was written in 1957 in Paris. At the time, 29 and working as a correspondent for a Colombian newspaper, the writer was suffering from depression caused by a deep nostalgia for his native Colombia, compounded by serious financial difficulties. He intended to study film in the French capital, but the newspaper he worked for was shut down by the Colombian authorities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e García Márquez wrote three versions of this short novel, which was rejected by several publishers before finally being published in 1961. This period of maturation refined the author's precise style in this humanistic tale, which satirizes the tortuous bureaucracy of Latin American countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e One of the hundred best Spanish-language soap operas of the 20th century, according to the Spanish newspaper \u003cem\u003eEl Mundo\u003c\/em\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159388864764,"sku":"9788501016553","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/47a958b31bc469997ba7541ce760212c.jpg?v=1779246843","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/ninguem-escreve-ao-coronel","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}