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The story of a shipwrecked sailor: who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time

By Garcia Marquez , Gabriel;Velasco , Luis Alejandro

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage International
ISBN
067972205X, 9781101911099
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2345995 bytes)
Edition
1st Vintage International ed
Pages
ix, 106 pages : map\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

In 1955, Garcia 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 Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal.

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