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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Published: Mar 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $16.00
Pages: 128
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.