No One Writes to the Colonel

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  First published in Spanish as El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba

  This translation first published in the United States of America by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1968 and in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape 1971

  First published in Penguin Books 1974

  This edition published 2014

  English translation copyright © Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1968

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  Copyright © Gabriel García Márquez, 1970

  English translation copyright © Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1986

  Cover © Thomas Hoepker / Magnum Photos

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  The moral right of the author has been asserted

  ISBN: 978-0-141-91731-3