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21%OFFGabriel Garcia Marquez - THE STORY OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR - 9780241968604 - V9780241968604
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THE STORY OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR

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Description for THE STORY OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR paperback. In 1955 eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor's amazing tale of endurance, from his loneliness and thirst to his determination to survive. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 100.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, started his literary career with the publication of The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor . . .

'On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia'

In 1955 eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor's amazing tale of endurance, from his loneliness and thirst to his determination to survive.

The ... Read more was Marquez's first major work, published in a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.

'The story of Velasco on his raft, his battle with sharks over a succulent fish, his hallucinations, his capture of a seagull which he was unable to eat, his subsequent droll rescue, has all the grip of archetypal myth. Reads like an epic' Independent

'A master storyteller' Daily Mail

'Garcia Marquez is a retailer of wonders' Sunday Times

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Product Details

Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
100g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241968604
SKU
V9780241968604
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as ... Read more

Reviews for THE STORY OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR
The story of Velasco on his raft, his battle with sharks over a succulent fish, his hallucinations, his capture of a seagull which he was unable to eat, his subsequent droll rescue, has all the grip of archetypal myth. Reads like an epic.
The Independent

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