{"product_id":"the-story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor","title":"Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor [2014] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eGabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, started his literary career with the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor \u003c\/i\u003e. . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor\u003c\/i\u003e was Marquez's first major work, published in a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A master storyteller'\u003ci\u003e Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Garcia Marquez is a retailer of wonders' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marquez, Gabriel Garcia","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43733527855394,"sku":"9780241968604","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/marquez-gabriel-garcia-gabriel-garcia-marquez-the-story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor-2014-paperback-9780241968604-58540800147795.jpg?v=1727358436","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/the-story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}