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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

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Author Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Randolph Hogan
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale Mar 13, 1989 | 128 Pages | 9780679722052
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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
  • WINNER | 1982
    Nobel Prize
© Caleb Bach
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ was born in Aracataca, 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 One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and his memoir, Living to Tell the Tale. He died in 2014. View titles by Gabriel García Márquez

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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

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  • WINNER | 1982
    Nobel Prize

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© Caleb Bach
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ was born in Aracataca, 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 One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and his memoir, Living to Tell the Tale. He died in 2014. View titles by Gabriel García Márquez

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