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No One Writes to the Colonel is a poignant novella written by the Nobel Prize winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Summary of the Book Unlike most of Garcia’s works, No One Writes to the Colonel is not based on the theme of magic realism. It is the story of a retired, penurious colonel living with his asthmatic wife. They have lost their son to political tyranny in their town. Being a veteran of the Thousand Days’ War, he still hopes to get the pension he deserves, which was promised about fifteen years before. The chief characters of the story are not named, which adds to the insignificant individual life in Colombia, especially in those times. About Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian writer of novels, short-stories, screenplays and journalistic columns. He is best remembered for: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera. Marquez won much acclaim for his contribution to Colombian literature, including the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works were often based around a fictional village called Macondo and explore the themes of solitude and magic realism.