{"product_id":"the-story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor-paperback","title":"The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabriel García Márquez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRandolph Hogan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for \u003ci\u003eEl Espectador\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated by Randolf Hogan.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Randolf 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003cb\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eLove In The Time Cholera\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Autumn Of The Patriarch\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe General In His Labyrinth\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eNews Of A Kidnapping\u003c\/b\u003e. He died in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.02 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 1989\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756898025760,"sku":"9780679722052","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f4f724d5591fba69a217716de94a7b02.webp?v=1780088664","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}