TITLE:
The story of a shipwrecked sailor : who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time / Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; translated from the Spanish by Randolph Hogan.
Translated Title:
Relato de un naufrago.
Publication Date:
1986
Publication Information:
New York : Knopf,
Physical Description:
106 p.
Subject Term:
Summary:
In 1955, Gabriel GarcÔia MÔarquez was working for a newspaper in BogotÔa, Colombia. In February of that year, several crew members of a Colombian destroyer were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later, one of them turned up half dead on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is GarcÔia MÔarquez's account of that sailor's ordeal.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780394548104
General Note:
Translation of: Relato de un naufrago.
