The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor - Gabriel García Márquez

The author's early writing is now published to tie in with the paperback edition of Love in the Time of Cholera. nIn 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. nTranslated by Randolf Hogan.n