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 / Gabriel Gárcia Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Randolph Hogan.

By:

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

Contributor(s):

Hogan, Randolph [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : Knopf, 1986.Description: ix, 106 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

0394548108

Uniform titles:

Relato de un náufrago. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

910/.091636 19

LOC classification:

PQ 8180.17 G216s 1986

Summary: Translated by Randolf Hogan. 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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Translation of: Relato de un náufrago.

Translated by Randolf Hogan. 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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