The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez

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Translated by Randolph 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... read more

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Original Language: Spanish
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Country: England
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0224021605
Page Count: 106

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Dewey: 910.091636

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Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( G ) › Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Latin American
Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
Books › Biographies & Memoirs
Books › Travel

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