Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, started his literary career with the publication of The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor . . . ‘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 Sailor was 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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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 128 ● ISBN 9780241968611 ● 出版者 Penguin Books Ltd ● 发布时间 2014 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2936471 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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