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Paperback The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Book

ISBN: 067972205X

ISBN13: 9780679722052

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

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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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Relato De Un Naufrago, El

Purchased for a Spanish class, this is a fast-moving, easy to read yet challenging book. Excellent use of Spanish grammar and idioms to expand language skills. The story is captivating and keeps the reader motivated to keep working.

Nice and short

I read this book when I was in high school. I though it was one of the most interesting book I had to read at that time. It was a very vivid and tragic story of a man waiting to be rescued in the middle of the ocean. Overall is a niche short story to read.

Un interesante recuento de un drama real

Relato de un Náufrago describe la experiencia de Luis Alejandro Velasco, un joven que en 1955 cayó al mar, junto con otros siete tripulantes de un destructor de la marina colombiana, y que tuvo la fortuna de ser el único sobreviviente, después de pasar diez días sin comer ni beber en una balsa a la deriva. Aunque la historia fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez en sus tiempos de periodista de El Espectador de Bogotá, con material producto de una larga entrevista al superviviente, los responsables de la publicación decidieron que el relato se narrara en primera persona y que lo firmara el náufrago. Lo publicaron a un mes de sucedidos los acontecimientos, en 14 episodios diarios consecutivos. La historia impactó, no por ser nueva en sí, puesto que la noticia ya había sido cubierta ampliamente por los medios y explotada por publicistas, sino porque por vez primera se hizo público un verdadero recuento de lo ocurrido. Quince años después, cuando Gabo ya había escrito Cien Años de Soledad, decide publicar la historia completa en formato de libro y firmarla como el autor. La narración de esta increíble experiencia es estupendamente clara y vívida. Muestra con lujo de detalle, pero sin desperdiciar tinta, cómo sucedieron verdaderamente los acontecimientos que llevaron a la muerte a siete marinos colombianos, y a la fama, y luego al olvido, al único sobreviviente, sin que hubiera tormenta ni naufragio alguno. En este libro no hay nada de magia, puro realismo. Y se disfruta igual.

The best one hundred pages I've read in a long time...

...I read this book in Spanish as a teenager and loved it. Just ordered it for my teenager son and when it came I started reading it again and couldn't put it down. Excellent translation. Reads as well in English as in Spanish. Great piece of journalism.

A book that's hard to put down.

You can read this very quickly, but it's so captivating you'll wish there were more. Marquez makes you feel the sailor's hunger, his thirst, his lonliness, his fear, and his hope. It's an ideal book to give a young reader--twelve to fourteen years old, perhaps--to get him/her interested in "adult" reading: the narrative is quite simple, but the story is as exciting as any you'll find, and one you'll remember for a long time.
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