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Mar 13, 1989 | ISBN 9780679722052 Buy
Oct 15, 2014 | ISBN 9781101911099 Buy
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Oct 15, 2014 | ISBN 9781101911099
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. Translated by Randolf Hogan.
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!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. Translated by Randolf Hogan.
Gabriel García Márquez was born in 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 and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died… More about Gabriel García Márquez
"A luminous narrative that rivals the most remarkable stories of man’s struggles against the sea."–Philadelphia Inquirer
Nobel Prize WINNER 1982
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