BOOKS FROM COLOMBIAThe Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
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Set in Colombia
Male author
Description:
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.