The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Author: Gabriel García Márquez, Randolph Hogan

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Unabridged: 3 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/19/2021


Synopsis

In 1955, García Márquez 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. 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 García Márquez’s account of that sailor’s ordeal.

About Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

About Gary Tiedemann

Gary Tiedemann is a Florida and New York-based narrator, but learned how to act in Chicago's improv, sketch-comedy, and theater scene. He came to audiobook narration after voicing countless commercials and videos over a twenty-year voice-over career. Gary has also appeared in hundreds of improv and sketch performances at Chicago's Annoyance Theatre, iO, The Second City, and in dozens of theater roles as a cofounder of The New Colony Theatre. When Gary is not in a booth, he is probably outside wondering if there is time to go camping.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on November 18, 2024

Vivid. 1955, Caribbean Sea. Twenty years old soldier Luis Alejandro Velasco is part of the crew on board destroyer Caldas, traveling from the United States to Colombia. His life unexpectedly turning when a giant wave sent him and several of his mates flying to the sea, where he remained lost with......more

Goodreads review by Mutasim on June 18, 2020

The full title is The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Liferaft 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, which pretty much sums up the story.......more

Goodreads review by Ina on January 08, 2018

It is been ten years since I set foot on sea as you guess am really scared of, I didn’t try learn to swim and almost drowned twice trying to show off my nonexistent swimming prowess to people, I don’t try to aboard any ship and if I tried I must make sure I have my life saving jacket near me so when......more

Goodreads review by Joselito Honestly on April 18, 2014

Think of a writer who can make you smile, happy and laugh with just the title of his work or with its prologue written in four short pages. I have one, and only one: Gabriel Joselito de la Concordia Garcia Marquez. And it is here, where he didn't tell his own story, but the story of another, written......more

Goodreads review by Baba on November 21, 2020

So... here's some background, I recently got a collection of numerous Gabriel García Márquez books very cheaply - so in this year (2007) I'll be looking to try and take a long look at the work of a well known and liked writer whom I don't really like! My first foray is this retelling of shipwrecked s......more