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| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140157550 |
| Book Description | This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas, were swept into the Caribbean Sea. The sole survivor, Luis Alejandro Belasco, told the true version of the events to Marquez, causing great scandal at the time. |
| Editorial Review | "A luminous narrative that rivals the most remarkable stories of man's struggles against the sea."--Philadelphia Inquirer |
| About the Author | Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014. |
| Language | English |
| Format | Paperback |
| Author | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Publication Date | 29/02/1996 |
| Number of Pages | 128 |
The Story Of A Shipwrecked Sailor printed_book_paperback english - 29/02/1996
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