by Gabriel García Márquez · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472230088
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«Relato de un náufrago» is the journalistic chronicle by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
True story of Colombian sailor Luis Alejandro Velasco, the sole survivor of eight crew members who fell from a destroyer into the Caribbean Sea. Velasco endured ten days adrift on a raft, without food or water, until rescued. García Márquez's reports revealed there was no storm but smuggling, and the chronicle became a political denunciation.
Work number 8 in the Marginales collection from Tusquets Editores. The original reports were published in 1955 in the Bogotá newspaper El Espectador; the book appeared in 1970.
Habitual reading in schools and a gateway to García Márquez's narrative journalism.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
