The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor - (Vintage International) by Gabriel García Márquez (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The author's early writing is now published to tie in with the paperback edition of Love in the Time of Cholera.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for <i>El Espectador</i>, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. <p/>Translated by Randolf Hogan.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A luminous narrative that rivals the most remarkable stories of man's struggles against the sea."--<i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including <b>One Hundred Years of Solitude</b>, <b>Love In The Time Cholera</b>, <b>The Autumn Of The Patriarch</b>, <b>The General In His Labyrinth</b>, and <b>News Of A Kidnapping</b>. He died in 2014.
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