No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, Gabriel García Márquez. Translation by J.S. Bernstein. Avon Bard (1973). No cover artist credited. 220 pages.
Another beautiful Avon Bard Latin American series cover that fails to attribute the cover artist. The “other” stories that supplement the titular novella are García Márquez’s 1962 collection Los funerales de la Mamá Grande. When I picked this up I fully expected the translator to be Gregory Rabassa, who did several of García Márquez’s major works, along with many, many of the other Avon Bard LA titles. But it’s J.S. Bernstein; as far as I can tell, this is their (his? her?) most famous translation. (Maybe Rabassa was doing a Richard Bachman thing.)
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