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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
All rights reserved
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
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