The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Who Drifted on a Life Raft for Ten Days (Vintage International) [Idioma Inglés]: Who Drifted on a Life Raft for Ten ... by The Government and Forgotten For All Time - Softcover

García Márquez, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067972205X ISBN 13: 9780679722052

Verlag: Vintage, 1989

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 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 by Randolf Hogan.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Cholera, The Autumn Of The Patriarch, The General In His Labyrinth, and News Of A Kidnapping. He died in 2014.

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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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Translated by Randolph 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.

"A luminous narrative that rivals the most remarkable stories of man's struggles against the sea."--Philadelphia Inquirer

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 067972205X
• ISBN 13: 9780679722052
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar