# The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

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- Authors: [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://www.bookquiver.com/gabriel-garcia-noblejas)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-205-2
- Pages: 128
- Published: 1989-03-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 washed overboard and disappeared....