{"product_id":"the-story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor-9780679722052","title":"The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor","description":"In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for \u003ci\u003eEl Espectador\u003c\/i\u003e, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated by Randolf Hogan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003cb\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eLove In The Time Cholera\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Autumn Of The Patriarch\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe General In His Labyrinth\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eNews Of A Kidnapping\u003c\/b\u003e. He died in 2014.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491880046866,"sku":"9780679722052","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_16182ce5-867c-4ccd-a1fa-8568c9a8b51a.jpg?v=1730560364","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-story-of-a-shipwrecked-sailor-9780679722052","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}