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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: 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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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PQ 8180.17 G216s 1986 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000174628

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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