The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

by Gabriel García Márquez

Rating: 4 (4 votes)

Tags: Set in Colombia Male author

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

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This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas, were swept into the Caribbean Sea. The sole survivor, Luis Alejandro Belasco, told the true version of the events to Marquez, causing great scandal at the time.

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