num_pages: 106
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.
language: English
title: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
titlecomplete: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
genres: Classics, Adventure, Latin American Literature, Latin American, Nobel Prize, Novels, Spanish Literature, School, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 27299
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd