The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
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ISBN: 9780140157550
author:
Gabriel García Márquez
translator:
Randolph Hogan
publishing house:
Penguin Books Ltd
publication date: 1996
-2
language:
English
number of pages: 106
Relato de un náufrago
Gabriel García Márquez Randolph Hogan
overview
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas, were swept into the Caribbean Sea. The sole survivor, Luis Alejandro Belasco, told the true version of the events to Marquez, causing great scandal at the time.