The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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English

Penguin
23 April 2014

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first time

'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, 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 Colombian newspaper El Espectador, in 1955. It is being re-issued on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 96g
ISBN: 9780241968604
ISBN 10: 0241968607
Publication Date: 23 April 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 *