Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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'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 Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" was Marquez's first major, and controversial, work, published in a Colombian newspaper, "El Espectador", in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.
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Truth can emerge only through the honest lies of fiction. A gripping tale of survival. The Times Of all the living authors known to me, only one is undoubtedly touched by genius: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Sunday Telegraph 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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- : 53783
- : 44793
- : 0.092
- : 01 August 2007
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 128
- : 910.45
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Gabriel Garcia Marquez