The story of a shipwrecked sailor
Subtitle: 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
By: Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez ; translated from the Spanish by Randolph Hogan
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher: Vintage International
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9780679722052
Subjects: Shipwreck survival
Work titles: Relato de un na ufrago
Description: 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
Notes: This translation originally published: New York : Knopf, 1986.

Translation of: Relato de un na ufrago.