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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.
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel García Márquez
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 106
- ISBN10
- 0140157557
- ISBN13
- 9780140157550
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Adventure, Creative Nonfiction, 20th century, Novellas, Narrative Journalism, Spanish Literature, Ships, Survival, Seas and Oceans, Nobel prize, Based on True Events, Narration, Latin American Literature, Navy, Starvation, Colombia, Castaways, Colombian Literature
- First published
- 1970
- Original title
- Relato de un náufrago
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- 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.