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Relato de un náufrago

who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time
Pages
176
Published
1996
Language
English

Synopsis

This is the true story of a sailor who survived a shipwreck and drifted for ten days on a life raft with no food or water. He was rescued and hailed as a hero, enjoying a brief period of fame and fortune. However, his story took a turn when the government turned against him, leaving him forgotten.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, born in Aracataca on Colombia's Caribbean coast. He earned his living as a journalist long before he earned it as a novelist, reporting from Paris in the 1950s and later working in Bogotá and New York for the agency Prensa Latina. He is the writer most closely identified with magical realism, in which the fantastic is narrated in the same matter-of-fact register as th...

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