Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone--even the lowborn--a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders. Now they are both rising stars in the new regime, despite backgrounds that couldn't be more different. Annie's lowborn family was executed by dragonfire, while Lee's aristocratic family was murdered by revolutionaries. Growing up in the same orphanage forged their friendship, and...

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel Garc�ia M�arquez durante su estancia en Par�is, adonde hab�ia llegado como corresponsal de prensa y con la secreta intenci�on de estudiar cine, a mediados de los a�nos cincuenta. El cierre del peri�odico para el que trabajaba le sumi�o en la pobreza, mientras redactaba en tres versiones distintas esta excepcional novela, que fue rechazada por varios editores antes de su publicaci�on....

A retiring professor reflects on the past, when he and his brother-in-law were arrested and tortured, but only he survived.

With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.