The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Autor Gabriel Garcia Marquezen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2014
'On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia'
In 1955 eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor's amazing tale of endurance, from his loneliness and thirst to his determination to survive.
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailorwas Marquez's first major work, published in a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.
'The story of Velasco on his raft, his battle with sharks over a succulent fish, his hallucinations, his capture of a seagull which he was unable to eat, his subsequent droll rescue, has all the grip of archetypal myth. Reads like an epic'Independent
'A master storyteller'Daily Mail
'Garcia Marquez is a retailer of wonders'Sunday Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241968604
ISBN-10: 0241968607
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241968607
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Gabriel
Garcia
Marquez
was
born
in
Aracataca,
Colombia,
in
1927.
He
studied
at
the
National
University
of
Colombia
in
Bogotá,
and
later
worked
as
a
reporter
for
the
Colombian
newspaperEl
Espectadorand
as
a
foreign
correspondent
in
Rome,
Paris,
Barcelona,
Caracas
and
New
York.
He
is
the
author
of
several
novels
and
collections
of
stories,
includingEyes
of
a
Blue
Dog(1947),Leaf
Storm(1955),No
One
Writesto
the
Colonel(1958),In
Evil
Hour(1962),Big
Mama's
Funeral(1962),One
Hundred
Years
of
Solitude(1967),Innocent
Erendira
and
Other
Stories(1972),The
Autumn
of
the
Patriarch(1975),Chronicle
of
a
Death
Foretold(1981),Love
in
the
Time
of
Cholera(1985),The
General
in
His
Labyrinth(1989),Strange
Pilgrims(1992),Of
Love
and
Other
Demons(1994)
andMemories
of
My
Melancholy
Whores(2005).
Many
of
his
books
arepublished
by
Penguin.
He
was
awarded
the
Nobel
Prize
for
Literature
in
1982.
Gabriel
Garcia
Marquez
died
in
2014.
Recenzii
The
story
of
Velasco
on
his
raft,
his
battle
with
sharks
over
a
succulent
fish,
his
hallucinations,
his
capture
of
a
seagull
which
he
was
unable
to
eat,
his
subsequent
droll
rescue,
has
all
the
grip
of
archetypal
myth.
Reads
like
an
epic.