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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

By:

García Márquez, Gabriel, (1928-2014)

Contributor(s):

Hogan, Randolph

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , c1986Description: 106 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0394548108

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 910.4 GAR

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 910.4 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Material retirado/oculto del Opac		000423

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 from the Spanish to English

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