The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Winner of the Nobel Prize 

In 1955, García Marquez was working for El Espectador, 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 García Marquez’s account of that sailor’s ordeal.

Translated by Randolph Hogan.

“A luminous narrative that rivals the most remarkable stories of man's struggles against the sea.” —Philadelphia Inquirer